Older adults
Life review therapy using autobiographical retrieval practice for older adults with clinical depression
... 20 older adults (aged 65-93) with clinically signifi cant depressive symptoms and no dementia; participants were randomly assigned to treatment or to no ...
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The fight against prejudice in older adults: perspective taking effectiveness
... Older adults drew stereotypic inferences to a greater extent than younger adults in the memory task, and this was likely due to a lesser inhibitory activity in the processing of information: ...
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A biopsychosocial perspective of sexual behavior in older adults living with HIV: A systematic literature review
... Factors influencing sexual decision-making among older adults living with HIV have been studied to come up with a description of what sexual activity or managing sexual risk mean. Use of drugs, a biological ...
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Older adults and sport and physical activity professionals in Spain
... In order to obtain the information necessary to meet the objectives of the study and to measure physical activity demands of the elderly and other related variables, it was decided to begin with the Physical Activity ...
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Lipid profile, functional capacity and ankle-brachial index in active older adults
... Active older adults had better lipid levels, higher ABI levels, better functional performance, lower body mass, a smaller abdominal circumference, and lower incidence of hypertension, in comparison to ...
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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Frailty Among Peruvian Older Adults
... Leurgans, & Bennett, 2010; Ensrud et al., 2007; Fried et al., 2001; Fried, Ferrucci, Darer, Williamson, & Anderson, 2004; Rothman, Leo-Summers, & Gill, 2008; Samper-Ternent, Al Snih, Raji, Markides, & ...
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Gender differences in disability among older adults in the context of social gender and income inequalities : 2013 Brazilian health survey
... of older Brazilians and contributes to the analysis of the health situation in Brazil, allowing researchers to trace the disability profile in ...from older adults living in the community and ...
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Older Adults and Technology- Based Instruction: Optimizing Learning Outcomes and Transfer
... when older learn- ers were informed of cognitive strategies they could use to facilitate learning, they were more likely to use them and benefit significantly from ...studying older adults, Berthold ...
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Sedentary behaviors and psychological outcomes among older adults: a systematic review
... This systematic review aimed to synthesize the scientific evidence about the relationship between sedentary behaviours and various psychological outcomes in older adults. Most of the included studies were ...
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Predictive Value of Frailty Indices for Adverse Outcomes in Older Adults
... in older adults: the frailty phenotype and the frailty ...60-year-old adults were included and followed up for four ...2,708 adults; mean age was ...
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Satisfaction with life and food-related life in Ecuadorian older adults
... Using an EFA only one factor was detected on the FIS that grouped four of the seven original items (60.3% explained variance). Items 1, 2, and 3 were eliminated because they presented communality values below 0.4. For ...
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Perceived quality of life and physical activity in Brazilian older adults
... Despite the worldwide increase in life ex- pectancy, the negative impact of the biological ageing process may affect, directly or indi- rectly, the individual perception of quality of life in advanced ages. Therefore, in ...
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Association between history of abuse and falling in older adults
... Although accidents often cause injury in older adults, not all injuries are the result of accidents. 5 Falls can be related to assaults and violent attacks. 21 Some people experiencing physical elder abuse ...
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TítuloImmune biomarkers in older adults: role of physical activity
... in older adults (Mahbub et ...in older subjects as compared to younger populations (Capuron et ...in older adults that may lead to chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases, ...
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Project development for older adults: orientation's contribution
... that older adults achieve an adaptive coping mechanism centered around the way they handle the emotions which spring from the stressful process instead of around the problem, which should be a priority, to ...
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Functional performance in physically frail community dwelling older adults
... The current training program demonstrated significant improvements in balance and gait measures in the FCT compared to the CG at week 12. Nelson et al. (2004) suggested that improvements in physical performance tend to ...
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Cognitive function in normal aging and in older adults with mild cognitive impairment
... young adults, 20 healthy older adults and 20 elders with MCI performed a series of cognitive tasks under controlled ...healthy older participants showed repetition priming for stimuli that ...
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TítuloNutritional determinants of frailty in older adults: a systematic review
... institutionalized older adults, while seventeen were performed in community- dwelling populations, which limits significant comparisons among ...in older people, and we presented a well-defined ...
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TítuloFrailty status in older adults is related to alterations in indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase 1 and guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase I enzymatic pathways
... Activated human monocytes/macrophages produce neopterin at the expense of BH4. 69 BH4 deficiency affects PHA and NOS enzymatic activities, consequently diminishing tyrosine and NO production and increasing the ratio ...
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The association between past sexual abuse and depression in older adults from Colombia
... Globally, people are living longer and the life course risk of exposure to violence increases, and the diseases of old age can be exaggerated by violence and abuse. As older adults experi- ence the ...
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