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To develop and validate a clinical prediction rule to identify treatment failure patients with community-acquired pneumonia(CAP) for middle aged and elderly in China, data from the patients aged ?? 45 yrs with CAP in derivation cohort, internal validation cohort and external validation cohort were analysed by the methods of univariate analysis, multivariate analysis and receiver operating curve. The...
Caring of the elderly, especially the empty nesters, is a major concern of the whole society. The paper discusses the current situation of the elderly caring in China and abroad, analyzes the resources available for the caring system, including neighborhood, community, hospital, volunteer, and government, and constructs a framework of the elderly caring system, which provides the aged people with...
The medical costs for elderly people in Taiwan have increased largely due to the increasing number of aging people in the country. To meet the goals and requirements of the National Health Insurance (NHI), designing and providing a program which would reduce the unnecessary medical services demanded by elderly people is needed. In this research, a conceptual service model of the telecare system applied...
Balance and locomotion involve multi-sensory integration while meeting environmental demands. In addition, increased task complexity negatively affects postural control in aging and patient populations. The goal of this pilot study was to examine the effects of aging and cognitive load on the visual perception of vertical. Four young and 3 older individuals participated. Subjective visual vertical...
A long-term experiment of robot assisted activity for elderly people has been conducted at a health service facility for the aged since August 2003. Two therapeutic seal robots, Paro, were introduced there. This paper describes an interim report of the experiment for three months.
This paper describes possibility of robot assisted activity, RAA, and robot assisted therapy, RAT, through the fieldwork in the aged persons' home and the pediatrics ward using several kinds of robots on the market.
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