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Grazyna Puto, Iwona Repka and Marta Muszalik
Introduction: Chronic pain in older people is a global health problem not only in terms of a negative subjective feeling, but also as a social and economic factor. Deterioration of functional capacity is one of the main symptoms of chronic pain; therefor...
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Leonardo Filipe da Silva, Emilene Zitkus and André Pimenta Freire
The ubiquity of the Internet and its technology and the increasing aging of the world?s population are ever more evident. Older users have different demands and capabilities when using the services offered in the digital environment. As a service provide...
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Hsien-Ming Chou
Existing caretakers of long-term care are assigned constrainedly and randomly to taking care of older people, which could lead to issues of shortage of manpower and poor human quality, especially the proportion of older people increases year after year t...
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Oliver Kisalay Burmeister,David Ritchie,Alison Devitt,Eevon Chia,Gregory Dresser,Russell Roberts
The aim of the project was to evaluate the use of telehealth equipment in the homes of older community-dwelling people, and to review its social and economic impact. A mixed methods approach was adopted, involving interviews, observation and Depression A...
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N.B. Hounsell, B.P. Shrestha, M. McDonald, A. Wong
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People's life expectancy is increasing throughout the world as a result of improved living standards and medical advances. The natural ageing process is accompanied by physiological changes which can have significant consequences for mobility. As a resul...
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Chung-Hung Tsai, Yu-Ming Kuo and Shu-Lin Uei
The level of trust given towards telecare by the family members of older people using the service is extremely important. Family trust may be an influential factor in deciding whether to use such services. This study focuses on older people?s satisfactio...
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Fengming Su, Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Michael G.H. Bell
With the population aging in many countries, older people?s travel is recently getting more attention in the transportation literature. However our understanding of factors influencing their mode choice is still limited. In this research the focus is on ...
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Helena Titheridge, Kamalasudhan Achuthan, Roger L Mackett, Juliet Solomon
?Social exclusion? is a concept that has become increasingly prominent in the UK and elsewhere in the last ten years. Social exclusion occurs as a result of a series of problems that prevent people from being able to participate in activities that are c...
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Nijole Konceviciene,Marija Ber?anskiene,Violeta Eidukaitiene
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Erkihun Amsalu, Ying Zhang, Christopher Harrison, Tan Van Nguyen and Tu Ngoc Nguyen
Advances in cardiovascular therapies and cancer treatments have resulted in longer patient survival. The coexistence of cancer and cardiovascular disease has been recognized as a complex clinical scenario. In addition to cardiovascular disease, older peo...
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Nadhirah Nordin,Hitoshi Nakamura
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This paper aims to investigate the relation between objective and perceived neighbourhood walkability and its influence on the physical activity level of older adults. The relationships were used to measure older people's neighbourhood liveability, where...
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Judy Watson,David Lacey,Don Kerr,Paul Salmon,Natassia Goode
An increasing number of older adults are being affected by scams that can lead to the compromise and misuse of their personal details. Previous research has investigated factors that increase the likelihood of falling victim to identity compromise and mi...
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Tulika Suchit Gadakari,Jingjing Wang,Karim Hadjri,Junjie Huang
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Ageing-in-place is the most common ageing model in China. Therefore, design of age-friendly residential buildings and neighbourhoods becomes an important factor leading to improvement in older people?s health and quality of life. This paper presents the ...
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Ahmad Shahir Abdul Mutalib,Akehsan Haji Dahlan,Ajau Danis
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This study explores the practice of financial interdependence among Malay older people who live in the community in Malaysia. Eleven Malay older people participated in this qualitative study by an in-depth interview. The data was analyzed using six stage...
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Veralia Gabriela Sanchez, Carlos F. Pfeiffer and Nils-Olav Skeie
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Quynh Lê, Hoang Boi Nguyen and Tony Barnett
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Anders Wretstrand, Helena Svensson, Sofi Fristedt, Torbjörn Falkmer
Several transportation factors concerning older and disabled people are under transition in Sweden at present. By the year 2010, the public transit system must be fully accessible for all passengers. The present survey studied older people, in order to a...
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Stefan Hopf, Kieran Walsh, Eilionóir Flynn and Nena Georgantzi
Both COVID-19 and ageism can have a negative impact on the well-being of older people. Yet, our knowledge on the links between COVID-19, ageism and well-being is still emerging. The present study aimed to contribute to this knowledge by exploring the liv...
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Loredana IVAN,Ioana SCHIAU
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This report discusses descriptive results of the Computer Assisted Telephone based Survey (CATI) conducted in Romania in December 2016. The present survey is part of the international project Cross-National Longitudinal Study: Older Audiences in the Digi...
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Yukie Hayashi, Steven M. Schmidt, Agneta Malmgren Fänge, Tanji Hoshi and Toshiharu Ikaga
The aim of this paper was to explore the effect of seasonal temperature differences and cold indoor environment in winter on the physical performance of older people living in the community based on a field study. We recruited 162 home-dwelling older peo...
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