This would affect the relationship between the caregiver and care recipient and lead to poorer care quality. To prevent this, when involved in the care of older adults, physicians should look for, not only violence against the older adults, but also violence against the caregiver. Once the ...
Sick Before Their Time: When diseases that typically occur in adults affect children, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery can be daunting. Advice from families, patients, and other experts can ease the journeydoi:10.1097/01.NNN.0000484621.55164.67Pompilio...
Renal lesions, which may not occur, are multiple, 2- to 4-mm gray-to-white granulomatous foci seen as indentations or plaques just beneath the renal capsule, lesions that could be confused with nephrosis in older guinea pigs. The histologic lesion is an interstitial, mononuclear nephritis (...
In regard to old age, these differences gradually vanished in the DALYs rate and even reversed in the DALYs number in individuals older than 75 years old. Given that DALYs is the composite of YLDs and YLLs, we investigate the sex differences in these two components by age. The results ...
Due to the developing immune senescence, atresia may not affect resting primary and growing preantral follicles in aging ovaries [13], and such follicles may persist in spite of accumulation of environmental and genetic alterations of oocytes in older women. It is important to indicate that older...
In 2011, the median age in Canada was 39.9 years, meaning that half of the population was older than that and half was younger. In 1971, the median age was 26.2 years. Seniors make up the fastest-growing age group. This trend is expected to continue for the next several decades due ...
Chronic diseases are a key factor limiting the mobility of older people. Usually, individuals are conscious of their condition, as in the case of an acute musculoskeletal disorder that causes pain or functional limitations. ...
Chronic diseases are a key factor limiting the mobility of older people. Usually, individuals are conscious of their condition, as in the case of an acute musculoskeletal disorder that causes pain or functional limitations. However, if the condition has
As most surveys, EMIS may be biased towards middle-class participants, such that the differences observed here may be more pronounced in lower socio-demographic strata. All data were self-reported and limitations such as recall bias, social desirability bias, and measurement bias may affect the ...
Periodontal diseases are prevalent both in developed and developing countries and affect about 20-50% of global population. High prevalence of periodontal disease in adolescents, adults, and older individuals makes it a public health concern. Several risk factors such as smoking, poor oral hygiene, ...