BACKGROUND The study investigated the perspective of people with mobility limitations (PWML) in Zambia, firstly of their accessibility to public buildings and spaces, and secondly of how their capacity to participate in a preferred lifestyle has been affected. OBJECTIVES Firstly to provide insight into the participation experiences of PWML in the social, cultural, economic, political and civi...

BACKGROUND Mobility-related fatigue and low socioeconomic position predicts mobility limitations and disability in old age, but the interplay between these two factors is unknown. To evaluate whether mobility-related fatigue is a stronger risk factor for mobility limitations in certain socioeconomic groups, the aim of this study was to examine the combined effect of mobility-related fatigue and...

We evaluate whether trends in the prevalence of disability among the aged can be investigated using the 1980 U.S. Census' public transportation question and the 1990 query on mobility limitation. Despite the obvious difference in the two questions, we found remarkable similarity in major cross-sectional patterns, such as those by age and sex, when comparing results from the two data sets. This ...

extract: physical mobility and exercise are necessary for people health. for patient with mobility limitation this issue has more importance because these exercises help them to return to normal function more effectively. since the individual planning for each patient is not time effective, so we could plan group exercises and perform properly in orthopedic wards. the important goals of this pl...

The purpose of this study was to investigate what older adults with severe, moderate, or no mobility limitation consider motives for and barriers to engaging in physical exercise. Community-dwelling adults (N=645) age 75-81 years completed a questionnaire about their motives for and barriers to physical exercise and answered interview questions on mobility limitation. Those with severely limite...

PURPOSE to examine the combined effect of cohabitation status and social participation, respectively, and socioeconomic position on onset of mobility limitations in a prospective study among older Danes. DESIGN AND METHODS logistic regression analyses with combined exposure variables were performed in a study population of 2,839 older men and women from the Danish Intervention Study on Preven...

OBJECTIVES To understand how caring for grandchildren affects the physical and mental health of grandparents in Taiwan. METHOD Grandparents aged 50 and older from 4 waves of the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (1993-2003, n = 3,711) were divided into 7 categories based on living arrangement and caregiving history. Generalized estimation equations controlling for sociodemographic characteri...

Persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) frequently experience limitations of ambulation in the course of their disease. Not surprisingly, in recent surveys PwMS considered lower extremity function as one of the most important bodily functions, and ranked mobility limitations as the most important factor affecting their quality of life. The impact of MS on ambulation is reflected in the fact that...