Sentence examples for knowledge of elderly from inspiring English sources

The objective of the study is to assess the medication knowledge of elderly patients with chronic disease conditions and the factors affecting this knowledge.

The age category over 45 years was included in the analysis as knowledge of elderly family members about PCC can influence the behaviour of younger people within their family [ 18].

However, interviewer sex, age, education, socioeconomic status, work experience, how long and the frequency of interviewing, other jobs, health status and knowledge of elderly care did not explain this variation, and thus these characteristics are not a major source of interviewer bias.

The imminent technical challenges to the manufacturing of food for elderly consumption are the lack of knowledge of the elderly's physiological capability to eat and swallow and, particularly, the lack of technical guidance in matching texture properties with the individual's capability of eating.

Our limited knowledge of the elderly sub-population is due to the exclusion of onco-geriatric patients from clinical trials (Brow et al 1991; Fallahzadeh and Mays 1991; Firat, Bousamra, et al 2002).

For these GPs, the case managers were professionals who had good knowledge of the frail elderly.

Our findings contribute to the body of knowledge into seasonal migration of elderly in two important ways.

Lip and colleagues have detected lower levels of knowledge among elderly patients; moreover, longer duration of anticoagulation does not appear to ameliorate patient understanding significantly [ 14, 15].