Search results for "DWELLING OLDER-ADULTS"
showing 2 items of 2 documents
Adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with lower incidence of frailty: A longitudinal cohort study
2018
Background & aims There is a paucity of data investigating the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and frailty, with no data among North American people. We aimed to investigate if adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with a lower incidence of frailty in a large cohort of North American people. Methods This study included subjects at higher risk or having knee osteoarthritis. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was evaluated using a validated Mediterranean diet score (aMED) as proposed by Panagiotakos and classified into five categories. Frailty was defined using the Study of Osteoporotic Fracture (SOF) index as the presence of ≥2 out of: (i) weight loss ≥5% between b…
Kinematic analysis of motor strategies in frail aged adults during the Timed Up and Go: how to spot the motor frailty?
2015
Asma Hassani,1 Alexandre Kubicki,2,3 Vincent Brost,1 France Mourey,2,4 Fan Yang1 1Laboratoire LE2I CNRS 6306, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France; 2Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Cognition Action et Plasticité Sensori-Motrice, Campus Universitaire, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France; 3Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon, Hôpital de Champmaillot, Dijon, France; 4Faculté de Médecine, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France Objective: The purpose of this work was to analyze and compare the movement kinematics of sit-to-stand (STS) and back-to-sit (B…