Connecting Older Adults With Mental Health Apps: A Survey of Provider App and Education Material UseMany older veterans have access to mobile devices and are interested in using apps for mental health self-management, but few have ever downloaded health apps. To address the need for awareness of...
(2003). Yearbook of health and social affairs statistics for 2003, vol. 49. Seoul, Korea: Government Printing Office]. The number of older people who are living alone in rural areas has been sharply increasing as a result of the migration of younger adults to urban areas for employment. ...
This study aimed to explore the relationships and intrinsic pathways of social support, loneliness, economic income, and health behaviors among older adults during the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and to provide a theoretical basis for the implementation of health behaviors ...
The proportion of older adults in the population is steadily increasing, causing healthcare costs to rise dramatically. This situation calls for the implementation of health-related information and communication technologies (ICT) to assist in providing more cost-effective healthcare to the elderly. In...
COVID-19 severity at the time of testing and participants’ self-reported physical health. Older adults also have greater accumulated wealth31, which could explain any increases in financial prosocial behaviors. Therefore, we controlled for subjective and, where possible, objective wealth. Finally, in...
This cohort study assesses whether an association exists between life purpose and all-cause or cause-specific mortality among adults older than 50 years
Falls in older adults significantly impact overall health and healthcare costs. Intrinsic capacity (IC) reflects functional reserve and is an indicator of healthy aging. Aims To explore the association between IC and recent falls (≤ 90 days) in community-dwelling octogenarians from the Aging an...
This statistic shows the death rate from falls among adults aged 65 years and older in the U.S. in 2007 and 2016, by gender. In 2007, the rate of male death due to falls was 57.9 per 100,000. This rate increased to 72.3 per 100,000 in the year 2016. ...
Within the limited literature, Chen and Short (2008) focused on a group of older adults aged 80 and over in China, finding that living with a daughter was associated with a higher level of mental health than co-residence with a son. However, both Cong and Silverstein (2008) and Liu and...
13 We suspect that social support can either promote a sense of self-efficacy and self-esteem or become “dis-abling” by reinforcing dependence; therefore, social support can have “mixed” effects.4,14 Our research focuses on physical and mental health indicators among older adults in China,...