Instrumental activities of daily living and number of daily steps in frail older females

Ando, S.; Higuchi, Yoshio; Kitagawa, Toshiki; Murakami, Tatsunori; Todo, Emiko; Ueda, Tetsuya

doi:10.1589/jpts.31.780

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“…The instrument by Fillenbaum aims to identify impaired functional activity among older adults based on the ability to complete five types of IADL tasks. This includes if they can get to places out of walking distance, go shopping, prepare their own meals, do their own housework, and manage their own money [55,57].…”

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Socio-Economic Predictors of Hiring Live-In Migrant Care Workers to Support Community Dwelling Older Adults with Long-Term Care Needs: Recent Evidence from a Central Italian Region

2021

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To meet the rising demand for home care, many families in Italy hire live-in migrant care workers (MCWs). However, the reliance on MCWs to provide long-term care (LTC) and a lack of alternative formal care services raises concerns around equality in access to care. This study aimed to determine the socio-economic predictors of hiring live-in MCWs among older adults with LTC needs in Italy, the objective care burden placed on MCWs, and the financial barriers that people in need of care and informal caregivers face when hiring MCWs, analysing data from a cross-sectional questionnaire with 366 older adults with LTC needs and their primary family caregivers living in the Marche region. Binary logistic regression was used to calculate the predictors of hiring a live-in MCW. Having a primary caregiver that had a high school education or above significantly increased the odds of hiring a live-in MCW (Odds Ratio (OR) = 3.880), as did receiving a social pension (OR = 2.258). Over half (57.5 percent) of the people in need of care had difficulties in affording the costs of hiring an MCW in the past year. To increase the sustainability of the Italian MCW market and reduce socio-economic barriers to accessing care, the Italian Government should increase funding for LTC benefits and add means testing and restrictions on the use of cash-for-care allowances.

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Socio-Economic Predictors of Hiring Live-In Migrant Care Workers to Support Community Dwelling Older Adults with Long-Term Care Needs: Recent Evidence from a Central Italian Region

2021

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Technological monitoring of motor parameters to assess multidimensional frailty of older people in the PRO-HOME project

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PRO-HOME Project Investigators Group * An interconnected system employing Kinect Azure and Fitbit Sense for continuous and non-intrusive data collection was used in the PRO-HOME protected discharge program, aiming at monitoring functional and clinical parameters in hospitalized older patients at different risks of frailty. The present study shows the findings on 30 older patients included in the PRO-HOME project. The Fitbit Sense recorded the mean daily and hourly number of steps, mean daily walked distance, and time spent inactive. Moreover, Kinect infrared camera captured gait speed and daily mean latero-lateral (body sway) and antero-posterior oscillations (lean-in). Patients underwent a standard Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) to compute the Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI), including basic and instrumental activities of daily living (ADL, IADL), cognition (Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire, SPMSQ) and nutrition, risk of pressure sores (Exton-Smith Scale, ESS), comorbidity, number of drugs and cohabitation status. Significant correlations between the mean hourly number of steps and MPI (p = 0.022), IADL (p = 0.013), SPMSQ (p = 0.006), ESS (p = 0.009), and both mean and maximum automated gait speed (p = 0.046 and p = 0.048) were found. Automated gait speed was also correlated with mean walked distance per day (p = 0.007) and lean-in (p = 0.047). Domotic technological monitoring through Fitbit Sense and Kinect Azure provides information on multidimensional frailty, including mobility and cognitive and functional status, in older people.

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Instrumental activities of daily living and number of daily steps in frail older females

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Socio-Economic Predictors of Hiring Live-In Migrant Care Workers to Support Community Dwelling Older Adults with Long-Term Care Needs: Recent Evidence from a Central Italian Region

Socio-Economic Predictors of Hiring Live-In Migrant Care Workers to Support Community Dwelling Older Adults with Long-Term Care Needs: Recent Evidence from a Central Italian Region

Technological monitoring of motor parameters to assess multidimensional frailty of older people in the PRO-HOME project

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