Showing posts with label living. Show all posts
Showing posts with label living. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Elderly Needs Mechanical Assistants

Elderly Needs Mechanical Assistants.
Two-thirds of population over the age of 65 constraint help completing the tasks of daily living, either from special devices such as canes, scooters and bathroom clutch bars or from another person, new research shows. "If people are finding ways to successfully deal with their helplessness with help from devices or people, or they're reducing their activity because of a disability, I reckon these groups are probably missed when we look at public health needs," said memorize author Vicki Freedman, a research professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. "How populace adapt to their disabilities is important, and it helps us identify who needs public haleness attention".

The study identified five levels on the disability spectrum: people who are fully able; kinsmen who use special devices to work around their disability; people who have reduced the frequency of their activity but divulge no difficulty; people who report difficulty doing activities by themselves, even when using special devices; and people who get staff from another person. One expert said the findings shed light on how many seniors are struggling with particular levels of disability.

"The fact that about 25 percent of people are unable to perform some activities of every day living without assistance wasn't surprising," said Dr Stanley Wainapel, clinical kingpin of the department of rehabilitation medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "What was riveting to me was that this study gave me more information on the other 75 percent. Just because 25 percent cannot do at least one job of daily living doesn't mean the other 75 percent can get along just fine.

It's not as black and white as we might have thought. There's a Twilight Zone parade-ground between those who are perfectly fine and those who aren't, and these are the people who can probably be helped most with rehabilitation group therapy or assistive devices. Results of the study were released online Dec 12, 2013 in the American Journal of Public Health. Data for the widespread research came from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study.

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Fathers Raising Children

Fathers Raising Children.
Almost one in six fathers doesn't subsist with his children, according to creative research that looked at how involved dads are in their children's lives. "Men who live with their kids interact with them more. Just the adjacency makes it easier," said study author Jo Jones, a statistician and demographer with the US National Centers for Health Statistics. "But significant portions of fathers who are not coresidential disport with their children, have a bite with them and more on a daily basis.

There's a segment of non-coresidential dads who participate very actively," Jones said. "Then there are the coresidential dads who don't participate as much, although that's a much smaller piece - only 1 or 2 percent. Living with children doesn't certainly portend a dad will be involved". Jones said other studies have shown that a father's involvement helps children academically and behaviorally.

And "Children whose fathers are labyrinthine usually have better outcomes than children who don't have dads in their lives. The findings were published online Dec 20, 2013 in a news from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The den included a nationally emblematic sample of more than 10000 men between the ages of 15 and 44, about half of whom were fathers. The work included adopted, biological and stepchildren.

The men were surveyed about their involvement with the children in their lives. Seventy-three percent of the fathers lived with their children, while another 11 percent had children they lived with as well as some they didn't breathe with. Sixteen percent of the fathers had children they didn't exist with at all, according to the study. For children under the adulthood of 5, 72 percent of dads living at home fed or ate meals with their babe daily, compared to about 8 percent of dads who didn't live with their youthful children, the study found.

More older fathers, Hispanic fathers and dads with a high style education or less reported not having eaten a meal with their children in the past four weeks. Ninety percent of fathers living with their girlish children bathed, diapered or dressed them, compared to 31 percent of dads who lived asunder from their children. Older dads, Hispanic fathers and those with a euphoric school diploma or less again were less likely to have participated in these activities, according to the study.

Dads who lived with young kids were six times more disposed to to read to them. For children between the ages of 5 and 18, 66 percent of dads who lived with their children ate meals with them every day, compared to about 3 percent of fathers who didn't physical with their kids. Just 1,4 percent of dads living with older children reported not having eaten with their kids at all in the times gone by four weeks, compared to 53 percent of the dads who didn't conclude with the kids.