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A physical rehabilitation program tailored to people diagnosed with acute decompensated heart failure appeared to improve physical functioning, quality of life, and even depression, researchers reported.
After 3 months, patients who were classified as frail or pre-frail improved by an average 1.5 units in the Short Physical Performance Battery compared with patients who were not involved in the program (95% CI 0.9-2.0,
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Virtual care has the potential to improve access to health care for people with Alzheimer disease and related dementias, especially in the context of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Videoteleconferencing is a well-studied means of virtual care that has successfully been used to remotely assess, diagnose and manage such patients.
Successful telemedicine programs often have access to supplemental clinical information to aid in diagnosis and involve interdisciplinary teams to manage patient complexity.
Evidence regarding direct-to-home virtual care for people with Alzheimer disease and related dementias is lacking; this model is associated with unique challenges that must be considered as virtual care becomes a more common approach to health care delivery.
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) presents with emotional and somatic symptoms and sometimes subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs). This study developed a collaborative method to integrate SCC assessment for evaluating late-life MDD.
Methods: Residents aged > 50 years in the Community Medicine Research Center of Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan during 2017– 2018 were prospectively recruited in this study. The participants were asked to report their depressive tendency and SCCs using the Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire (TDQ) and the AD8, respectively, and were administered psychiatric evaluation through the Mini–International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI). The participants were divided into elderly (age≥ 65 years) and older adult (age 50– 65) groups. The MDD predictive powers were assessed using logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses.
The impact of the institutionalisation of the elderly in Pakistan
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The Catholic Church governs three shelter homes in Karachi, where the residents pay minimal fees
In the 21
st century, ageing of the population is a significant demographic occurrence and a distinctive trend seen universally (Ameh et al., 2014; Hermalin, Ofstedel, & Tesfai, 2006; Wandera, Kwagala, & Ntozi, 2015). Among the continents, Asia has the most rapidly increasing elderly population (Powell & Khan, 2013), with more and more people in the age group of 60 years and above. A United Nations report on World Population Prospects mentions that globally in 2017 there were 962 million elderly people 60 years and above, and this number will rise up to 1.4 billion in 2030 (United Nation, Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division, 2015). Another report by World Population Ageing reveals that the number of older persons 60 years and above will increase to 2.1 billion by 2050 and this