Determinants for higher costs also seem to interact: single living women (€20,080), single elderly (€19,500) and especially single living elderly women (€21,790) are the most expensive patients (see also table 2 [e]).
Physical exercise and/or enriched foods for functional improvement in frail, independently living elderly: a randomized controlled trial.
Although the role of inflammation has been studied in specific diseases or in community living elderly, data in hospitalized acute care elderly patients are scarce.
To determine the association of hyposalivation and the perception of dry mouth with oral health-related quality of life for independently living elderly.
The aim of this study was to investigate mental health status and the factors related to it in residents of a communal-housing project for independently living elderly in Japan.
The purpose of this study was to determine the association of stimulated salivary flow rate with perceived salivary flow and various oral symptoms among a group of independently living elderly persons.
Population II consisted of 20 healthy, independently living elderly men and women.
The study population consists of independently living elderly, between 70 and 80 years old, with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Little research has been done on the relationship between malnutrition and mental health in community living elderly individuals.
For example, in institutionalized or home-bound elderly, oxidative stress was reported to increase significantly [ 40, 41], while in free living elderly it is not always elevated [ 42].
The sample consisted of fifty independently living elderly from Galesburg, Illinois, (the US participants) and fifty residents living in independent living apartments in Moscow (the Russian participants).
