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Durch die in den letzten Jahrzehnten stetig angestiegene Lebenserwartung müssen in der kurativen Medizin und Rehabilitation Anpassungen vorgenommen werden, um nicht nur die ...kalendarische Lebenserwartung, sondern auch die Zahl der gesunden Lebensjahre zu steigern. Die manuelle Medizin bietet hier, immer in Kombination mit anderen physikalischen Modalitäten, insbesondere bewegungstherapeutischen Maßnahmen, eine Vielzahl an Möglichkeiten, Schmerzen zu lindern, die Aktivitäten (körperlich, mental und sozial) sowie die Lebensqualität der älteren Menschen deutlich zu verbessern und damit die Pflegebedürftigkeit um Jahre hinauszuschieben.
The article discusses the features that, in the regional aspect, influence the choice of various strategies for the preservation of individual health by older people. It is concluded that the ...individual health of the elderly depends on the specific social environment, as well as on individual psychological and physiological factors, on the level of activity and autonomy in decision-making. The study was conducted by the Sociological Institute of the RAS – branch of the FCTAS RAS from March to September 2022 in two regions of the Russian Federation: St. Petersburg and rural areas of the Republic of Karelia. The main research method used was semi-structured interviews, the approach to analysing interview data was thematic. One of the results of the analysis is the identification of specific factors of two health preservation strategies typical for older people: self-help, with distinctive features of autonomy in the social environment, the poor financial situation of representatives of this strategy and their search for alternative methods of treatment; and a care strategy related to older people’s trust in institutional medicine, their experience in managing a chronic disease, and their higher financial status. The results of the study allow us to conclude that when choosing a particular strategy, older people are guided by such factors as the level of trust in the social environment in general and profess ional medicine in particular, individual psychological and emotional aspects of ideas about maintaining one’s health and the level of personal material well-being.
Background: Depression is a condition that can cause the elderly people to experience mental or emotional disorders due to stress and loneliness that felt. Stress is something that can disturb the ...elderly people caused by anxiety, loneliness due to changes in roles in the family or in their life. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between stress and loneliness with depression in the elderly people in Banjar Kawan, Tampaksiring, Bali. Method: This study used cross sectional design with 68 elderlies were recruited as respondents based on inclusion criteria by using purposive sampling techniques. The instruments were used included the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), UCLA Loneliness Scale Version 3, and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). The results of this study showed that most of the respondents aged 64 years, female, last education was elementary school, marital status was married with an income of <500,000. Result: The correlation results showed a significantly weak positive correlation between stress and depression (r = 0.284, p = 0.019) and loneliness with depression (r = 0.254, p = 0.037). The results of multiple linear regression showed that stress (β = 0.266) most influenced the occurrence of depression compared to loneliness (β = 0.039) so that the higher the stress felt, the higher the symptoms of depression in the elderly people. Conclusion: The elderly people are hoped that they could improve their health by actively participating in many activities in order to not causing symptoms of depression that are getting worse. Key Words: depression, elderly people, loneliness, stress.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies have been applied in healthcare sectors for many years. Along with the ageing trend rising globally, the use of AI and intelligent service robots ...in home care for elderly or disabled bedridden people has generated considerable attention. A robot that can physically assist care-workers and the elderly or disabled bedridden people in daily activities may help ease care-workers’ burden and help older people live independently for longer with higher quality of life. This survey gives a comprehensive overview in the latest AI and robotic technologies applications in elderly care, providing a detailed analysis on the current products in the market, and discusses the problems and the future trend in this topic.
Social isolation and lifestyle changes provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively affected the level of physical activity of the elderly people.
To evaluate the available evidence related to ...the level of physical activity (PA) of elderly people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is a systematic review, registered on PROSPERO (CRD42021241116), which included cross-sectional and cohort studies. Embase, Pubmed, Cochrane, Web of Science and Scopus databases were used to search for the studies. Finally, the New Castle-Ottawa Quality Assessment scale was used to measure the quality of the studies.
25 studies were found, being 14 cross-sectional and 11 cohort studies. The studies showed that the elderly population was highly affected in relation to the level of physical activity and lifestyle during restrictions, quarantine and lockdowns caused by the COVID-19. There was a significant reduction in physical activity levels, leading to declines in physical fitness and increased sedentary lifestyle, factors directly related to the increase in frailty in this population.
The level of physical activity in the elderly population decreased during the quarantine period of COVID-19 worldwide. Strategies to maintain physical condition must be encouraged with physical exercises that meets the needs of the elderly in the current pandemic scenario, in order to maintain and improve the health of this population.
•Elderly population has been severely affected by the social distancing measures undertaken to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.•Studies in this systematic review revealed significant decreases in physical activity levels in elderly people worldwide.•Strategies to maintain physical condition of the elderly people during social distancing scenarios are imperative.
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