scholarly journals Relation between locomotion impairment, functional independence in retirement, and occupational strain resulting from work carried out during working life. Study of a sample population of 350 miners in the Loire valley in France

1998 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 283-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Calmels ◽  
R. Ecochard ◽  
M. A. Blanchon ◽  
C. Charbonnier ◽  
B. Cassou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Occupational Strain ◽  
Loire Valley

Prevalence and Correlates of Functional Limitation among Elderly in Kerala

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
A Anjana ◽  
Asha T Chacko
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Functional Limitation ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Biological Variables

Performance of IADL could be closely related to biological variables such as age and sex. Since women outnumbered men among the sample population, it is hopeful to conclude that elderly women can be relished with functional independence, but in the advancement of their age, they have to suffer a lot. The results of the study showed that the extended life year is accompanied by increased demands on health care delivery systems as more part of life may be spent with some functional limitation. The prevalence of physical disability in elderly persons with functional limitation are, therefore, important for policy development on care of the elderly. The most effective way to reduce the proportion of population with disabilities is to delay the onset of disabilities. Living independently in familiar surroundings surely promotes a better ageing and the development of living environments together with functional ability exert a profound influence on active ageing. In Kerala situation, geriatric care should be focused to the necessities of elderly women since they have to live more years with functional limitation and disability than males. 

Impairment Rating and Spinal Cord Injuries: Revisiting the Guides

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Richard T. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injuries ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Multiple Organ ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
Impairment Ratings

Abstract This article addresses some criticisms of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides) by comparing previously published outcome data from a group of complete spinal cord injury (SCI) persons with impairment ratings for a corresponding level of injury calculated using the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition. Results of the comparison show that impairment ratings using the sixth edition scale poorly with the level of impairments of activities of daily living (ADL) in SCI patients as assessed by the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) motor scale and the extended FIM motor scale. Because of the combinations of multiple impairments, the AMA Guides potentially overrates the impairment of paraplegics compared with that of quadriplegics. The use and applicability of the Combined Values formula should be further investigated, and complete loss of function of two upper extremities seems consistent with levels of quadriplegia using the SCI model. Some aspects of the AMA Guides contain inconsistencies. The concept of diminishing impairment values is not easily translated between specific losses of function per organ system and “overall” loss of ADLs involving multiple organ systems, and the notion of “catastrophic thresholds” involving multiple organ systems may support the understanding that variations in rating may exist in higher rating cases such as those that involve an SCI.

Charles Francis Adams: diary of a young American taxidermist visiting New Zealand, 1884–1887

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Gill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Set Up ◽  
White Island

In December 1884 Charles Francis Adams (1857–1893) left Illinois, USA, by train for San Francisco and crossed the Pacific by ship to work as taxidermist at Auckland Museum, New Zealand, until February 1887. He then went to Borneo via several New Zealand ports, Melbourne and Batavia (Jakarta). This paper concerns a diary by Adams that gives a daily account of his trip to Auckland and the first six months of his employment (from January to July 1885). In this period Adams set up a workshop and diligently prepared specimens (at least 124 birds, fish, reptiles and marine invertebrates). The diary continues with three reports of trips Adams made from Auckland to Cuvier Island (November 1886), Karewa Island (December 1886) and White Island (date not stated), which are important early descriptive accounts of these small offshore islands. Events after leaving Auckland are covered discontinuously and the diary ends with part of the ship's passage through the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), apparently in April 1887. Adams's diary is important in giving a detailed account of a taxidermist's working life, and in helping to document the early years of Auckland Museum's occupation of the Princes Street building.

Baseline data of the DEVIDE-study: DEnosumab vs Intravenous Ibandronate: a 2-year retrospective head to head real life study

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Amrein ◽  
Christian Muschitz ◽  
Doris Wagner ◽  
Thomas R Pieber ◽  
Heinrich Resch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Baseline Data ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Real Life Study
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