Search for dissertations about: "I-ADL"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word I-ADL.

2. 1. Functional Capacity And Physical Environmenal Demand. Exploration of Factors Influencing Everyday Activity and Health in the Elderly Population

   Author : Susanne Iwarsson; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; barrier-free design; assessment; disability; docility hypothesis; gender-differences; gerontology; housing adaptations; I-ADL; occupational therapy; P-ADL; population study; primary health care; public health; survival; scaling methodology; Social medicine; Socialmedicin; samhällsmedicin; Gerontology; Gerontologi;

   Abstract : The general aim of this thesis was to explore relationships between functional capacity, environmental factors, everyday activity, and health in the elderly population. Initially, the Enabler, an instrument for assessment of the physical home environment's accessibility, was translated to Swedish and revised, and tested for reliability and validity. READ MORE

4. 2. Daily life after Subarachnoid Haemorrhage : Identity construction, patients' and relatives' statements about patients' memory, emotional status and activities of living

   Author : Elisabeth Berggren; Birgitta Sidenvall; Dennis Larsson; Ann Langius Eklöf; Högskolan i Skövde; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAH; Stroke; Pain; Memory; Decisions; Meaning-making; Identity-construction; Psychological sequelae; Emotional status Social life; P-and I-ADL; Memory tests; Interviews; Questionnaire; Medical sciences; Medicin;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to describe patients’ experience and reconstruction regarding the onset of, and events surrounding being struck by a Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH), and to describe patients’ and relatives’ views of patients’ memory ability, emotional status and activities of living, in a long-term perspective.Methods: Both inductive and deductive approaches were used. READ MORE

5. 3. Quality of care and assessment of health among elderly in actue care

   Author : Inger Johansson; Mona Kihlgren; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : assessment; elderly; health; quality of life; sense of coherence; organisation of care; MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Abstract : This thesis describes nursing staff's opinion of quality of care and work satisfaction and elderly patients' perception of health, functional capacity, quality of life and sense of coherence (SOC) from a prognostic point of view. The research was performed within several surgical and orthopaedic wards, and different instruments were developed and tested for reliability and validity. READ MORE

6. 4. Depression in older people with and without dementia : non-pharmacological interventions and associations between psychotropic drugs and mortality

   Author : Gustaf Boström; Håkan Littbrand; Erik Rosendahl; Peter Nordström; Knut Engedal; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Depression; Dementia; Exercise; Randomized controlled trial; Psychotropic drugs; Mortality; Gender; Residential facilities; Frail elderly; Epidemiology; Cohort study; geriatrik; Geriatrics; sjukgymnastik; Physiotherapy;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to investigate associations between psychotropic drug use and death, associations between functional capacity, dependency in ADL and depression, and to evaluate a non-pharmacological intervention to reduce depressive symptoms, among older people with and without dementia.There is limited knowledge about the risk of death associated with psychotropic drug use among those aged ≥85 years, those with dementia, or those living in residential care facilities; groups that have a higher intake of psychotropic drugs and who are also more prone to adverse drug reactions. READ MORE

7. 5. ADL assessments after stroke: aspects on reliability. The stability between raters, instruments and modes of administration

   Author : Yvonne Daving; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : outcome assessment; stroke; activities of daily living; reproducibility; questionnaire; interview;

   Abstract : Activities in daily living, ADL are assessed as an outcome of the rehabilitation process or to be able to determine suitable interventions. The overall aim here was to analyse assessments in terms of ADL in order to investigate influences of ADL assessment and study the stability of the raters, instruments and modes of administration in assessing personal, P-ADL and instrumental, I-ADL items. READ MORE