Gait variability and fall risk in community-living older adults: a 1-year prospective study.
Hong Kong has among the worlds longest living older population, inspite of the populution so previlent here.
There was a need to extend research on PARO's potential benefits beyond cognitively impaired and dependently living older adults.
People are living older because of our collective victory over disease and damp and dirt.
These findings provide evidence of significant improvements in obstructed gait function of community-living older adults associated with a systematic resistance-training program.
SCREEN II is a valid and reliable (test retest and interrater) nutrition risk-screening index for community-living older adults (50+ years).
To systematically examine the amount and type of physical exercise that might reduce the future risk of dementia in community-living older people.
In samples representative of community-living older people [ 41, 42], an additional "Healthy" profile typically emerges.
Thirty to sixty percent of community-living older adults fall each year [ 1].
Most falls occur during normal, non-hazardous activity in the community living older person.
Only few studies have addressed life-space mobility in community-living older people [ 19].
