Second, the validity of elderly persons' self-reported drug use and reasons for use may be questioned.
14 Another important but often disregarded issue can be the elderly person's self-perception of his/her health status and sense of loss of well-being, which is normally associated with swallowing and eating impairments.
Using the model of frontal asymmetry, we hypothesized, that physical exercise by elderly persons at a self-selected pace increases left frontal alpha activity and is associated with a shift in mood to the positive.
Particularly, attention will be paid to the elderly persons' multimorbidity, polypharmacy, self-management ability, prevention, lifestyle, and future expectations.
The LUCAS cohort focuses on the transition of self-supporting community dwelling elderly persons from a healthy, self-reliant initial state, through functional decline, frailty, disability, dependence and ultimately to death in a highly developed industrial country.
However, the adherence of elderly persons to executing these self-administered programs varies considerably.
Elderly persons with higher proactive self-management capacities report higher levels of life satisfaction, positive affect, and well-being [ 6].
For example, a negative self-evaluation of health could stimulate a psychoneuroimmunologic response, reflect the elderly person's accurate self-detection of preclinical changes in body function, or lead to a delay in taking health-protective and maintenance actions [ 12, 25].
A major change in the Danish elderly sector over the last several years is the greater focus on providing services that support the maintenance of the elderly person's personal integrity and self-identify [ 1].
30, 31 Self-care ability of elderly persons with dementia was measured by caregivers' reports on the Chinese Barthel Index, which assesses performance of activities of daily living (ADLs), 32, 33 and the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Index.
The first phase of this study was a self-administered questionnaire mailed to 425 elderly persons with cancer, selected from Princess Margaret Hospital oncology clinics.
