METHODS: Men and women 65 years and older (N = 743) were followed for fall events from the Maintenance of Balance, Independent Living, Intellect, and Zest in the Elderly (MOBILIZE) Boston prospective cohort study. Baseline measurements were collected by comprehensive clinical assessments, home ...
Purpose: Recent studies have concluded that there is a lack of €patient-centered€ care in nursing homes and subsequently a need for nursing home culture change. As a result, a variety of new, promising initiatives have been introduced, with most of these incorporating the use of €empowered...
(such as body mass index and sleep disturbances). In addition, our study’s lack of positive findings was not due to insufficient statistical power, as the effects were precisely estimated. Unlike PRS and association studies, MR aims to disentangle causality from correlation. Observational studies ...
(2021) concluded that some men in traditional cultures expect women to always be subservient, which is widely known as hegemonic masculinity. In addition to this job stress, the high load of family duties and lack of individual abilities and skills are considered other causes of conflict [19]....
In elderly people, frailty and sarcopenia showed an association with depression in meta-analyses [67,68]. Another meta-analysis showed that PTSD is associated with re- duced healthy eating and physical activity and increased obesity and smoking [69]. Three studies with a wide range...
in the US, Dobkin et al. (2018)). This suggests a particularly high financial vulnerability of the average Chinese household to major illnesses. Based on a sample of elderly population (aged 50 to 59) in China, Mommaerts, Raza, and Zheng (2020) find that the increase in direct out-of-...
perceived lack of sympathy for the patients [120]. Interactions with medical service providers can also be a source of frustration. One study showed that in Germany and Switzerland, 25% of patients felt that they had not been managed well and 6% felt that their condition had been trivialized...
smoke in the Western world.1 A recent population-based cohort study of elderly smokers and non- smokers indicated that 1 in 4 men and 1 in 6 women went on to develop pulmonary obstruction,2 although it is unclear how many of these individuals subsequently developed a clinical diagnosis of ...
In addition, migrant families left behind in rural areas suffer disproportionately from social problems, such as lack of children’s education (Giles and de Brauw, 2005), low nutrition and poor health, as well as lack of care for the elderly (Giles and Mu, 2005). Rural-urban migration in...
Table 2. Brief summary of studies related to the consequences of the lockdown in Asian populations. 3.1.1. Children and Adolescents An online survey in China aimed to determine the levels of health-related behaviors (physical activity, screen exposure, and sleep status) among students from prim...