Relation Between Physical Fitness and Functional Performance in 80-Year-Old Men and Women Residing in a Community for the Elderly

1999 ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
Yutaka Yoshitake ◽  
Mieko Shimada ◽  
Yasuo Kimura ◽  
Akiko Sugeta ◽  
Daisuke Inaba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Functional Performance ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Old Men

Transversely Isotropic Model of Osteonal Cortical Bone: Contribution of Haversian and Resorptive Porosity

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Neil Dong ◽  
Y. Young Huang ◽  
X. Edward Guo
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Bone ◽  
Transversely Isotropic ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Haversian Canal ◽  
Isotropic Model ◽  
Elderly Men ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Osteoclastic Resorption ◽  
Old Men

Abstract Age related changes in porosity of cortical bone have been previously reported. The cortical porosity increases with age in both men and women, from 4.6% in men and 4% in women at age 40 to 10% and more at age 80 (Laval-Jeantet et al., 1983). The porosity is defined as the percentage of cortical bone occupied by vascular and resorption cavities. There are a few quantitative data regarding the influences of Haversian canal and resorption space on porosity. Age related increases in Haversian canal size and Haversian canal number contribute to the increasing porosity of cortical bone for the elderly men and women (Thompson, 1980; Nyssen-behets et al., 1997). The number of osteoclastic resorption space is also greater in the old men than in the young men (Nyssen-Behets et al., 1997).

Revisiting an Old Question with a New Technology: Gender Differences on a Neuro-Cognitive Temporal Tracking Task

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (14) ◽  
pp. 860-864
Author(s):  
Valerie J. Rice ◽  
Jenny Butler
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Functional Performance ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Fitness Score ◽  
Hand Tapping ◽  
And Performance

Gender differences exist, but the strength and importance of those differences is debatable. This study examined differences in performance among men (n = 64) and women (n = 56) on 14 neuro-cognitive temporal tasks. No adult norms exist for these tasks. Therefore, the goals were to 1) record and compare scores achieved by men and women, and 2) investigate differences in terms of performance (grade point average and physical fitness score) during Army Health Care Specialist Advanced Individual Training (AIT). Descriptive statistics and t-tests identified and compared scores by gender, while IM scores and performance relationships were explored with Pearson product-moment correlations and regression analysis. Men's temporal responses were closer to the reference beat than women's on 14.3% of tasks (p < 0.05). There were no significant relationships between temporal responses and physical fitness performance scores and only two correlations between temporal responses and grade point average (right hand tapping, Task Average and Super Right On (percent within ±15ms of the target beat) ( r = 0.189, p = 0.04; and r = 0.20, p = 0.03). While this research upheld findings of differences between men and women in temporal abilities, the differences did not impact functional performance during AIT.

scholarly journals Assessment of the nutritional risk of > 53-year-old men and women in Taiwan

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan C Tsai ◽  
Jack MC Chang ◽  
Harvey Lin ◽  
Yi-Li Chuang ◽  
Shu-Hui Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Nutritional Assessment ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Mini Nutritional Assessment ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Nutritional Risk ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Old Men

AbstractObjective:The study was conducted to gain an understanding of the status of potential nutrition risks in > 53-year-old men and women in Taiwan.Methods:The study employed a validated nutrition-risk screening questionnaire, the Mini Nutritional Assessment, to assess the potential risk of undernutrition in the elderly population in Taiwan. The questionnaire was translated into the local language, Chinese, and was modified slightly based on cultural considerations. It was administered to 4440 randomly selected subjects by means of face-to-face interviews. The questionnaire included questions on subjective self-evaluations, global parameters, simple dietary assessment and some anthropometric measurements.Results:Results show that the questionnaire can be used effectively as a tool to screen for individuals who are at risk of undernutrition. It showed that the proportion of the elderly population at risk of nutritional inadequacy is relatively low, but does increase with advanced ageing. The proportion of the elderly considered at high risk of undernutrition was found to increase with age, ranging from 0.88% for 53–60-year-old subjects to 1.86% for subjects aged 60–70 years, 3.6% for 70–80-year-olds and 5.3% for >80-year-old subjects.Conclusion:The study showed that a simple questionnaire adopted from the Mini Nutritional Assessment can be employed to provide a preliminary screening and to identify individuals who are potentially at increased risk of nutritional inadequacy in the elderly population in Taiwan.

Associations between self-estimated and measured physical fitness among 40-year-old men and women

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 329-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Mikkelsson ◽  
J. Kaprio ◽  
H. Kautiainen ◽  
U. M. Kujala ◽  
H. Nupponen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Old Men

PENGARUH TERAPI TERTAWA TERHADAP PENURUNAN TEKANAN DARAH LANSIA DI UPT PANTI WREDHA BUDHI DHARMA YOGYAKARTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niken Setyaningrum ◽  
Andri Setyorini ◽  
Fachruddin Tri Fitrianta
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Group Comparison ◽  
Control Blood Pressure ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Treatment Of Hypertension ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference

ABSTRACTBackground: Hypertension is one of the most common diseases, because this disease is suffered byboth men and women, as well as adults and young people. Treatment of hypertension does not onlyrely on medications from the doctor or regulate diet alone, but it is also important to make our bodyalways relaxed. Laughter can help to control blood pressure by reducing endocrine stress andcreating a relaxed condition to deal with relaxation.Objective: The general objective of the study was to determine the effect of laughter therapy ondecreasing elderly blood pressure in UPT Panti Wredha Budhi Dharma Yogyakarta.Methods: The design used in this study is a pre-experimental design study with one group pre-posttestresearch design where there is no control group (comparison). The population in this study wereelderly aged over> 60 years at 55 UPT Panti Wredha Budhi Dharma Yogyakarta. The method oftaking in this study uses total sampling. The sample in this study were 55 elderly. Data analysis wasused to determine the difference in blood pressure before and after laughing therapy with a ratio datascale that was using Pairs T-TestResult: There is an effect of laughing therapy on blood pressure in the elderly at UPT Panti WredhaBudhi Dharma Yogyakarta marked with a significant value of 0.000 (P <0.05)

‘Strength in What Remains Behind’: Wordsworth and the Question of Ageing

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Mark Sandy
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Frequent Pattern ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Old Men ◽  
Poetic Vision

Attending to the hoped-for connection between young and older generations, this essay revisits Wordsworth's poetic fascination with the elderly and the question of what, if any, consolation for emotional and physical loss could be attained for growing old. Wordsworth's imaginative impulse is to idealise the elderly into transcendent figures, which offers the compensation of a harmonious vision to the younger generation for the losses of old age that, in all likelihood, they will themselves experience. The affirmation of such a unified and compensatory vision is dependent upon the reciprocity of sympathy that Wordsworth's poetry both sets into circulation and calls into question. Readings of ‘Simon Lee’, ‘I know an aged Man constrained to dwell’, and ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’ point up the limitations of sympathy and vision (physical and poetic) avowed in these poems as symptomatic of Wordsworth's misgivings about the debilitating effects of growing old and old age. Finally, Wordsworth's unfolding tragedy of ‘Michael’ is interpreted as reinforcing a frequent pattern, observed elsewhere in his poetry, whereby idealised figures of old men transform into disturbingly spectral second selves of their younger counterparts or narrators. These troubling transformations reveal that at the heart of Wordsworth's poetic vision of old age as a harmonious, interconnected, and consoling state, there are disquieting fears of disunity, disconnection, disconsolation, and, lastly, death.

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