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| A preliminary investigation to explore the effects of daytime physical activity patterns on health-related QOL in health community-dwelling elderly subjects | | Author(s) | Toshiaki Muraki, Toru Nagoo, Yuichi Ishikawa |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 19, no 2, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 51-62 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Physical capacity ; Mobility ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Living in the community ; Japan. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this Japanese study was to determine if different lifestyles of healthy older subjects would exert some influence on their daytime physical activity patterns and health-related quality of life (QOL). 69 older people were categorized into age-gender, marital status and body mass index (BMI) matched groups by four lifestyles. Daytime activity was recorded with the actigraph, a wrist-worn device. The findings demonstrated that lifestyle of the subjects residing in urban wards might appreciably exercise influences on QOL and physical activity. The preliminary study suggests that more attention to daily physical activity and lifestyle of health community-dwelling elderly subjects may not be less efficacious than conventional care in rehabilitative intervention, but the characteristics of older people with disabilities remain unclear. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020416251 A |
| Classmark | BI: C4: CC: F:59: K4: 7DT |
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