The overarching goal of physical therapy rehabilitation is to return the individual to as close to the premorbid level of function as possible or, alternatively, to maximize a person’s current potential for function and maintain it as long as possible. This goal is achieved by promoting changes in the individual, by altering his or her physical health elderly or social environments, or by implementing a combination of both strategies. (more…)
The proportion of elderly at any age without any chronic conditions is small, and disease can trigger a cascade of events res ...
Beneficiaries of the Medicare program have three rehabilitation-related benefits established by federal statute: physical thera ...
There are numerous basic Activities of Daily Living instruments that seek to quantify basic physical functions and obtain a numeric ...
Older Person Care • Older persons should benefit from family and community based care and protection in accordance with e ...
An international consensus statement on physical activity, fitness and health (Bouchard et al 1994) identifies six areas affect ...
The population of man aged over 65 will exceed the number of children under 5 years old in 2040, for the first time in history, according to a study released by the Census Bureau United States, which warned of the impact that this development. It is predicted huge impact will occurs in both the developed and developing countries. Diverse area will affected by these changes in population’s composition. (more…)
Spanning twenty-seven independent countries, the populations represent all possible situations in which people aging. The speed ...
Elder maltreatment and abuse of the elderly is found in almost all countries of the world. According to the World Health Organi ...
Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and ...
Aging is not only about old age. This is an ongoing process which will define the stages of biological, psychological and socia ...
Cancer occurrence rates in a period of time for a given population is expressed in various ways. The incidence rate is a direct mea ...