Vision impairment status did not appear to either promote or hinder psychosocial development.doi:10.1023/A:1013825217305Mark BrennanKluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum PublishersJournal of Adult DevelopmentBrennan M. Spirituality and psychosocial development in middle-age and older adults with vision loss . J...
Objective: The purpose of our study was to describe the quality of life of older adults with seizures or epilepsy and compare its psychosocial impact between those who were new diagnosed and those diagnosed before the age of 65.Methods: In-depth face to face interviews with open ended questions...
Purpose: To estimate changes in self-reported health and psychosocial factors associated with a 12-week sedentary behavior intervention for older adults. Design: Exploratory secondary analysis of pilot randomized controlled trial. Setting: Kaiser Permanente Washington Subjects: Sixty adults aged 60 to 89...
Younger and older adults tend to experience more spouse-related stress than do midlife adults. Midlife adults often have overload stressors such as having too many demands placed on them by children or due to financial concerns. Parents adjust to launching their children into lives of their own ...
Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults with Dementia and Their CaregiversThis chapter provides a review of the current evidence on psychosocial approaches to reducing behavioral problems among persons with dementia (PWD), with particular emphasis on state-of-the-science randomized controlled trials ...
Physical Resilience in Older Adults: Systematic Review and Development of an Emerging Construct. Resilience has been described in the psychosocial literature as the capacity to maintain or regain well-being during or after adversity. Physical resilienc... Heather,E,Whitson,... - 《Journals of Gero...
Low back pain in older adults: risk factors, management options and future directions Low back pain (LBP) is one of the major disabling health conditions among older adults aged 60聽years or older. While most causes of LBP among older adults... AY Wong,J Karppinen,D Samartzis - 《Scoliosi...
child’s progressive clinical phenotype (e.g., improvements in mobility or treatments for pain management would be meaningful, even in the absence of evidence for improvement in cognition) [51,52,66]. Parents of children who were older or had further progressed in their disease course expressed...
It is estimated that by the year 2015, at least half of those living with HIV disease in the United States will be 50years of age or older. Older adults with HIV disease are living longer than ever before and are living healthier and more normal lives. They continue to be involved in ...
The aim of this study was to examine the differences in psychosocial factors between seniors involved in supervised versus unsupervised exercise. A sample of 54 older adults completed a questionnaire that included measures of social support, exercise self-efficacy, and enjoyment. Results showed that ...