Sentence examples for measures of older from inspiring English sources

Primary objectives were: (1) to determine if age affects limiting functional outer fingertip and grip reaches, for women and men separately; and (2) to determine, through a cross-sectional comparison, if functional anthropometric measures of older Mexican American females and males are different from a younger group of Mexican American females and males.

We examined changes in key structural attributes such as reverse-J diameter distributions, complex vertical layering, variability of tree sizes, presence of advance regeneration and large/emergent trees as measures of old-growthness (Bauhus et al. 2009).

As before, we use a measure of older migration rates as an instrument for recent migration: we compute migration rates (the proportion of households with a migrant) at the district level based on departures in 1990 1998 and use it to instrument the migration rate for 1998 2006 departures, which is our measure of the network for an individual considering migration after 2006.

Although results of reproducibility are inconclusive [ 15, 16, 32], it is considered to be a valid measure of older people's fall risk and mobility [ 10, 31, 32].

These findings led to the development, using Rasch analysis, of the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI), an interval level outcome measure of older people's mobility [ 20- 23].

The findings of these two studies highlight the potential for our new tool to provide a valid measure of older women's social quality of life, yet they require duplication in longitudinal research.

Reliable use of the WHOQOL-OLD or its short forms amongst older people within a South African sample will yield a concise measure of older people's rating of their QoL in long-term institutions and furthermore provide caregivers, management, and even policy makers with a more holistic idea of what older people need in order to have QoL.

The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE, say that as the life expectancy increased with the new measure of old age, the proportion of older people in the population continually fell.

Falls risk was assessed using the Berg Balance Scale [ 15], which is a 14-item scale designed to measure balance of older adults in a clinical setting.

The research question is, therefore, whether or not the WHOQOL-OLD and the shorter versions thereof can be used as a reliable instrument for measuring QoL of older people living in long-term care facilities in South Africa.

By knowing how many atoms a material started with, and then measuring what's left, you can measure ages of old objects.