Falls among elders at senior centers may be due more to behavioral and environmental risks than to impaired health, strength, and balance. We monitored 222 older adults at senior centers weekly for two years and documented 242 falls; their location (outdoors: inside the home, or in transition ...
This phenomenon raises two important questions: Why do older adults living alone in cities not seek help from their families and communities, even if they have clear care needs? and why do they refuse to accept the wealth of public care resources in their community? Previous studies have ...
Article One: Why do hospitalized older adults take risks that may lead to falls? Citation: Haines, T. P., Lee, D. A., O'Connell, B., McDermott, F., & Hoffmann, T. (2015). Why do hospitalized older adults take risks that may lead to falls? Health Expectations, 18(2), 233-249...
which, in old age, tends to disproportionately lose structural integrity and associated functionality," they wrote. "Thus, we suggest that vulnerability to misleading information, outright deception and fraud inolder adultsis the specific result of a deficit in the doubt ...
Older adults and those of racial/ethnic minorities are at higher risk of being under-treated for pain [30-32]. Studies have shown that minority patients with pain are more likely to report greater activity limitations, severe pain, and functional impairments compared with non- Hispanic whites [...
Why do a gap year and take a year off? Is taking a gap year worth it? We’re here to tell you: Of course it is! Furthermore, it is irrelevant what stage of life you are in. A gap year is a good idea before college, after college, or even mid-career. People from all walks...
"Our study offers a reminder that 'one size fits all' approaches do not work well for older patients," says Kuchel. "Moreover, if our findings can be replicated in other populations, they may offer remarkable opportunities for implementing care models for older adults involving Precision Gerontol...
Maintaining neuromotor fitness across the life course is imperative. It can reduce falls in older individuals and improve/maintain physical and cognitive functioning. Complex motor skills (CMS) are involved in many physical activities (e.g., ball games,
College students, like all too many older adults, find themselves enmeshed in a Durkheimian nightmare: without a “sense of common bond or shared identity, a void of powerful values, lives of bleak consumerism. Anomie writ large. No friends, no community, no ceremony, no shared rituals … ...
As adults, this can be difficult to comprehend at first. When we are tired, we find it easier to fall asleep. But for babies, being overtired can mean that falling asleep is that much harder to do. 3. Separation Anxiety Separation anxiety usually occurs around eight or nine months when ...