Background: Limitation of daily activities is the obstacle that prevents the elderly from achieving their desires. Objective: Aim to discover the prevalence and risk factors of the limitation in daily activities in the elderly. Subject and methods: This cross - sectional study was conducted in 4 provinces: Thai Nguyen, Ha Tay, Hue and Can Tho during June to December 2006 among 2.644 people at the age of 60 and above. Results: The overall prevalence of limitation of the elderly is 5.6%, and 4.3% is totally dependent and 1.3% is partly dependent. This proportion increases with age. It happens more in urban areas as opposed to rural and mountainous areas. Those living with their spouse have lower proportion of limitations. Can Tho and Ha Tay has the higher proportion of limitation than Hue and Thai Nguyen. Factors related to these limitations are aging (OR = 1.08; 1.06-1.10), not working at the current time (OR = 0.11; 0.05-0.28), ethnicity (OR = 2.25; 1.45-3.49), lack of physical exercise (OR = 2.24, 1.75-3.85), brain damage (OR = 15.18; 9.47-24.35), dementia (OR = 2.39; 1.62-3.54) and loss of vision (OR =1.32; 1.05-1.65). Conclusion: The limitation in daily activities tremendously affects the quality of life for the elderly. Age, working status, race, physical activity, accident of cerebral vessels, dementia and vision loss are statistic significant related factors for the limitation in daily activities of the elderly
Elderly ; daily activities

The healthy, happy and useful living is living objective of elderly should be considered by communist party, state and social organizations. The activities of the health protection and care should be strengthened including communication of methods for self healthcare, rational nutrition, healthy style and socialization of the health care. The network of consultation and treament for elderly should be invested properly, especially functional rehabitation and QI-training and vitality maintenance.
Activities of Daily Living ; Aged

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Activities of Daily Living* ; Korea*

PURPOSE: The objectives of this study were to explore the relationships between the fear of falling and daily activities, and physical functioning of older people in community. METHOD: A descriptive study design was used in this study. 295 people aged over 65 and living in community participated. Data of demographic characteristics, fear of falling, activity daily living, physical functioning were collected. RESULT: 13.2% of the participants reported that they have falling accident last one year. 75.6% of participants reported fear of falling. 67.7% of them expressed restricting activity because of fear of falling. There were no significant relationship between fear of falling and BADL(Basic Activity Daily Living) but fear of falling and IADL(Instrumental Activity Daily Living) were related. It was also found that older people with higher fear of falling expressed more pain and uncomfortable feelings especially on their lower body and had higher scores of morbidity of neurologic diseases such as neuralgia and cerebrovascular diseases. CONCLUSION: There were significant relationships between fear of falling and IADL, and physical functioning on lower body, and morbidity of neurologic diseases such as neuralgia and cerebrovascular diseases.
Activities of Daily Living* ; Neuralgia

No abstract available.
Activities of Daily Living* ; Humans

Daily ; experience (practice) ; Medical ; Clinical

No abstract available.
Activities of Daily Living* ; Humans ; Stroke*

Background: Physical activity is well-studied health determinant with beneficial effects on targeting modifiable risk factors associated with morbidity and mortality related to increasing age. Hence, several studies were conducted to determine the effect of physical exercise in relation to reducing risk of adverse out-comes such as decline in cognition, decrease cardiac and pulmonary function and frailty. Likewise, studies were also conducted to determine the effect of physical exercise on the quality of life and ac-tivities of daily living among elderly. However, despite these recommendations regarding the benefit of physical exercise, the frequency and intensity of physical activity have not been well-defined Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to quantify the overall effect of physical exercise on the quality of life and activities of daily living among people 60 years or older from multiple published ran-domized controlled trials Methods: This review included randomized controlled trials involving adults aged 60 years and above who have been appropriately evaluated, with or without co-morbidities, with exercise therapy as an interven-tion. Three reviewers conducted the search for articles, risk of bias appraisal and data extraction Results: Two studies were included which met the inclusion criteria. Physical activity showed favorable effects on quality of life as reported in EuroQol quality of life scale (EQ-5D) and Short Form 36-Health Survey (SF-36). Likewise, activities of daily living also improved, measured by the Lawton and Brody Scale, Barthel Index scale, and SchwabEngland-Activites of Daily Living scale (SE-ADL). These benefits were observed on a short-term basis (< 3 months) among older adults with co-morbidities, sedentary and frail, with mobility difficulty, regardless of sex Conclusion This review has provided evidence that short term follow up period of physical exercise intervention have shown significant benefits among older adults compared to the control group with no exercise therapy intervention
Quality of Life ; Activities of Daily Living

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Activities of Daily Living ; Aged* ; Depression ; Humans

PURPOSE: This study was designed to explore and compare the prostatic hypertrophoc symptoms, activities of daily living, satisfaction of sexual activities and well-being among subjects with prostatic hypertrophic symptoms and the general population. METHOD: One hundred subjects with prostatic hypertrophic symptoms and one hundred general persons were recruited in K medical center. The data were collected from October 20, 2001 to March 30, 2002 by structured questionnaire. RESULT: The results were the following; 1. The percentage of mild(0~7), moderate(8~19) and severe(20~35)symptoms between subjects with prostatic hypertrophic symptoms and general persons were 6% : 60%, 54% : 39%, 40% : 1%. 2. There was a significant difference in prostatic hypertrophic symptoms(t=12.82, p<.001), in activities of daily living(t=-7.77, p<.0001), in satisfaction of sexual activities (t=-4.80, p<.0001), in well-being(t=-4.80, p<.0001) between subjects with prostatic hypertrophic symptoms and general persons 3. There was a significant difference in activities of daily living(F=16.28, p<.0001), satisfaction of sexual activities(F=3.98, p<.05) according to prostatic hypertrophic symptoms in subjects with prostatic hypertrophic symptoms. CONCLUSION: According to the above findings, prostatic hypertrophic symptoms influence activities of daily living, satisfaction of sexual activities, well-being of subjects with prostatic hypertrophic symptoms negatively.
Activities of Daily Living* ; Humans ; Sexual Behavior*