scholarly journals Development of Converged Device-Based Exercise Program for Preventing Fall and Increasing Physical Activity for the Elderly

Author(s):  
Sunyoung Kang

As the effects of COVID-19, many changes are occurring in the daily life. Breaking away from the temporal and spatial restrictions, the exercise method utilizing converged device in non-contact fashion is emerging. In the present study, home training with utilization of the converged device for fall prevention and improvement of daily life in behalf of the frail elderly has been composed, and execution process designed. Converged device-based exercise program extracted through Delphi analysis is composed of essential 8 types of motion reflecting the performance capability of the frail elderly as the subject, though easy, have been selected. Converged device-based exercise program configured the system in a structure of subject, interface, and administrator for the purpose of utilizing this exercise program. Overall execution process is composed 3 stages, and implemented with the elderly and the trainer being converged via medium. For the overall implementation, the elderly performs the exercise program under leading of the trainer as the administrator. Depending on the condition of the elderly as the subject, the trainer selects the difficulty of exercise, which the elderly performs and implements the exercise program while communicating with the trainer. The converged device-based exercise program that is applicable to the elderly as a digitally vulnerable class is expected to bring about not only fall prevention and increased physical activities but also subsidiary effects of producing digital device-friendly environments for the elderly as a digitally vulnerable class.

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciane Paula Batista Araújo de Oliveira ◽  
Sílvia Maria Azevedo dos Santos

ABSTRACT The study aimed to analyze the contextual conditions that influence the use of medications in elderly assisted in primary health care. Qualitative study with contribution of Grounded Theory, held in Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, where 30 elderly patients on medications were interviewed . Data were coded and a model consisting of nine categories was generated. The two categories that explain the contextual conditions of the phenomenon are, Interacting with the support network and The concurrent use of medicines, teas, home remedies and faith, but only the latter is the subject of discussion in this article. To accommodate various treatments, the elderly tried to understand and compare their functions and exercise the faith in God. The act of reconciling different treatments is part of contextual conditions that influence the phenomenon studied, creating a set of circumstances to which these seniors accounted seeking strategies to deal with drug use in daily life.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 658
Author(s):  
Hayzza Juliana Lopes Velasco ◽  
Rafaely De Cassia Nogueira Sanches ◽  
Cremilde Aparecida Trindade Radovanovic ◽  
Ligia Carreira ◽  
Maria Aparecida Salci

RESUMOObjetivo: investigar as influências da sobrecarga no cônjuge do cuidador do idoso fragilizado. Método: estudo qualitativo, realizado com dez cônjuges de cuidadores de idosos fragilizados, por meio de entrevistas abertas e individuais no domicílio. A análise dos dados foi subsidiada pela técnica de Análise de Conteúdo, na modalidade Análise Temática. Resultados: identificaram-se diversas alterações no cotidiano familiar, com destaque para a perda da liberdade, que provocou alterações na vida social, com interrupções das atividades de lazer; alterações nos relacionamentos conjugal e com os filhos compreendidas pela falta de atenção que o cuidador do idoso consegue dispensar a essas pessoas no dia a dia da vida em família e apontamentos a aspectos negativos e positivos dessa relação. Conclusão: mesmo com todas as mudanças ocorridas na organização familiar, os cônjuges conseguiram promover um realinhamento dos papéis familiares para o bem-estar de todos os integrantes da família. Descritores: Saúde do Idoso; Envelhecimento; Família; Relações Familiares; Cuidadores; Cônjuges. ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the influence of overload on the caregiver's spouse of the frail elderly. Method: a qualitative study, carried out with ten spouses of caregivers of frail elderly, through open and individual interviews at home. The analysis of the data was subsidized by the technique of Content Analysis, in the modality Thematic Analysis. Results: several changes were identified in family daily life, especially the loss of freedom, which caused alterations in social life, with interruptions of leisure activities; changes in marital and child relationships understood by the lack of attention that the elderly caregiver can give to these people in the daily life of the family and notes to the negative and positive aspects of this relationship. Conclusion: even with all the changes that occurred in the family organization, the spouses were able to promote a realignment of family roles for the well-being of all family members. Descriptors: Health for the Elderly; Aging; Family; Family Relations; Caregivers; Spouses.RESUMEN Objetivo: investigar las influencias de la sobrecarga en el cónyuge del cuidador del anciano fragilizado. Método: estudio cualitativo, realizado con diez cónyuges de cuidadores de ancianos fragilizados, por medio de entrevistas abiertas e individuales en el domicilio. El análisis de los datos fue subsidiada por la técnica de Análisis de Contenido en la modalidad Análisis Temático. Resultados: se identificaron diversas alteraciones en el cotidiano familiar, con destaque para la pérdida de la libertad, que provocó alteraciones en la vida social, con interrupciones de las actividades de ocio; cambios en las relaciones conyugales y con los hijos, comprendidas por la falta de atención que el cuidador del anciano logra dispensar a esas personas en el día a día de la vida en familia; y, apuntes a aspectos negativos y positivos de esa relación. Conclusión: incluso con todos los cambios ocurridos en la organización familiar, los cónyuges lograron promover un realineamiento de los papeles familiares, para el bienestar de todos los integrantes de la familia. Descriptores: Salud del Anciano; Envejecimiento; Familia; Relaciones Familiares; Cuidadores; Esposo.


2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S443
Author(s):  
Byungsung Kim ◽  
Seungwoo Nam ◽  
Hyunrim Choi ◽  
Changwon Won ◽  
Younghee Chae

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidenori Yano ◽  
Guang Yang ◽  
Saeko Wakai ◽  
Hideki Shimanuki ◽  
Kinue Nakajima ◽  
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Author(s):  
Daiva Milinkevičiūtė

The Age of Enlightenment is defined as the period when the universal ideas of progress, deism, humanism, naturalism and others were materialized and became a golden age for freemasons. It is wrong to assume that old and conservative Christian ideas were rejected. Conversely, freemasons put them into new general shapes and expressed them with the help of symbols in their daily routine. Symbols of freemasons had close ties with the past and gave them, on the one hand, a visible instrument, such as rituals and ideas to sense the transcendental, and on the other, intense gnostic aspirations. Freemasons put in a great amount of effort to improve themselves and to create their identity with the help of myths and symbols. It traces its origins to the biblical builders of King Solomon’s Temple, the posterity of the Templar Knights, and associations of the medieval craft guilds, which were also symbolical and became their link not only to each other but also to the secular world. In this work we analysed codified masonic symbols used in their rituals. The subject of our research is the universal Masonic idea and its aspects through the symbols in the daily life of the freemasons in Vilnius. Thanks to freemasons’ signets, we could find continuity, reception, and transformation of universal masonic ideas in the Lithuanian freemasonry and national characteristics of lodges. Taking everything into account, our article shows how the universal idea of freemasonry spread among Lithuanian freemasonry, and which forms and meanings it incorporated in its symbols. The objective of this research is to find a universal Masonic idea throughout their visual and oral symbols and see its impact on the daily life of the masons in Vilnius. Keywords: Freemasonry, Bible, lodge, symbols, rituals, freemasons’ signets.


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