1.Prevalence and risk factors of the limitations in daily activities in the elderly
Giang Ngan Pham ; Dung Viet Truong ; Liem Chi Tran ; Hoat Ngoc Luu
Journal of Medical Research 2008;59(6):88-93
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
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daily activities
2.Healthy, happy and useful living.
Journal of Practical Medicine 2002;435(11):2-5
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
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Aged
3.Korea Activities of Daily Living Scale and Korea Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale.
Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society 2002;6(1):1-10
No abstract available.
Activities of Daily Living*
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Korea*
4.Fear of Falling, ADL and Physical Functioning among Senior Citizens.
Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing 2006;9(2):117-125
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*
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Neuralgia
5.Evaluation of disabled patients with 10 ADLs.
Soon Ho KUEON ; Bang Hoon LEE ; Kang Mok LEE
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine 1991;15(2):48-55
No abstract available.
Activities of Daily Living*
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Humans
6.Evaluation of activities of daily living in stroke patients afterrehabilitation treatment.
Myoung Ho NAM ; Bong Ok KIM ; Seung Ho YUNE
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine 1991;15(3):295-308
No abstract available.
Activities of Daily Living*
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Humans
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Stroke*
7.A meta analysis on the effect of physical exercise on the quality of life and activities of daily living of elderly patients
Kersteine Joyce Ceros ; Janice Sanchez-Baz ; Evelyn Absolo-Lao
The Filipino Family Physician 2022;60(1):132-143
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
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Activities of Daily Living
8.Clinical Assessment of Aging.
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2007;50(3):221-227
There are two ways to assess aging: to evaluate the function and to estimate the biological age. The biological age is estimated objectively by measuring the level of biological aging, taking apart with disease. It is measured with some biomarkers, which reflect the change of organ function and body with aging. It is, however, difficult to use in clinical practice. The evaluation of function is more practical and easier to clinicians. The parameters used include Activities of Daily Living (ADL), Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) to evaluate the level of cognitive function. Balance test, standing up from chair, and walking pace can be checked to evaluate the physical function. Each method has its own limitations in evaluating the degree of aging precisely.
Activities of Daily Living
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Aging*
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Biomarkers
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Walking
9.IADL Indexs Used in Korea. Relationship Among Korean Version of Lawton IADL Index, Korean Version of Bathel ADL Index and K-IADL Index.
Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society 2005;9(3):190-195
BACKGROUND: The IADL indexes used in Korea were Korean version of Lawton Index(Lawton index), Korean instrumental activities of daily living index(K-IADL), Korean version of Bathel index(Bathel index). The purposes of this study are to compare the reliability, validity, distribution of these IADL indexes and examine the predicting ability of these measures to disability grading. METHODS: 147 patients with disability participated in the study. The patients were tested with Lawton index, K-IADL, Bathel index. The distribution, internal consistency, concurrent validity of each measures were examined. Predicting ability of these measures to disability grading was tested by comparing the mean of each measures according to Brain disability grading. RESULTS: Lawton index, K-IADL, Bathel index had acceptable and similar psychometric characteristics[high internal consistency(>0.8), high concurrent validity(Spearman's correlation coefficient, r&0.5; intraclass correlation coefficient >0.5)]. Each measures showed acceptable distribution, But K-IADL had right skewed distribution than other indexes. Predicting ability of these measures to disability grading was comparable among three IADL indexes CONCLUSION: Lawton index, K-IADL, Bathel index had acceptable and similar psychometric characteristics and discriminative ability to disability grading.
Activities of Daily Living*
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Brain
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Humans
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Korea*
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Psychometrics
10.The Effect of Self-Help Management Program by Strengthen Self-Efficacy on Self-Efficacy and the Activities of Daily Living in Stroke Patients.
In Sook KIM ; Seung Joo KANG ; Kye Ha KIM
Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing 2008;20(4):526-536
PURPOSE: This study examined the effect of a self-help management program which strengthens self-efficacy on the self-efficacy and the activities of daily living(ADL) in stroke patients. METHODS: A quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group, pre and post design was used. The subjects consisted of 47 stroke patients. Twenty-six patients were assigned to the experimental group and 21 patients were assigned to the control group. The self-help management program by strengthen self-efficacy and general hospital care were carried out on the experimental group. General hospital care was performed on the control group. The data was collected before and 5 weeks after the program. All subjects were questioned about the self-efficacy and ADL before and after the program. RESULTS: The scores of the self-efficacy and ADL in the experimental group were higher than those in the control group. CONCLUSION: The self-help management program by strengthen self-efficacy is effective in increasing the self-efficacy and ADL. Therefore this program may be a useful intervention to increase the ADL in stroke patients.
Activities of Daily Living
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Hospitals, General
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Humans
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Stroke