Sentences with phrase «for elderly participants»

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Participants also demanded a more safe transit for all LGBTQ people, women, youth and elderly.

A study for the Department of Agriculture, published in December, found that in fiscal year 2014 nearly two - thirds of SNAP participants nationwide were children (44 percent), elderly (10 percent), or disabled non-elderly adults (10 percent).

The high prevalence of OSA the study found in these cognitively normal elderly participants and the link between OSA and amyloid burden in these very early stages of AD pathology, the researchers believe, suggest the CPAP, dental appliances, positional therapy and other treatments for sleep apnea could delay cognitive impairment and dementia in many older adults.

In a 2004 study conducted on elderly people in Australia, Japan, Sweden, and Greece, researchers found that participants had a 7 % to 8 % reduction in death for every 20 grams of legumes they consumed daily.

In one experiment, elderly participants who completed 12 weeks of yoga demonstrated improved connections between functional regions in the brain responsible for language processing, attention, and self - regulation.

Good Shepherd Community Hospital, Hermiston • OR 8/2009 — 9/2010 Community Volunteer Services Served as transportation scheduler and dispatcher for elderly or disabled patients, scheduled pick up and drop off, and documented participant's charts and appointment time and location.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Created a set of rules to ensure the safety and wellbeing for participants, decreasing the number of complaints • Acquired funding worth an entire year's activities through exceptionally well - placed outreach sessions and activities • Rehabilitated 12 elderly participants suffering from chronic depression by encouraging their involvement in outdoor activities • Saved an elderly participant from harm by recognizing early signs of a stroke during a physical activity and immediately acquiring help

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Singlehandedly led a group of elderly campers through a programs involving both physical and mental activities • Created, implemented and led 5 groups of children with special needs, resulting in increased confidence on the participants» end • Stopped a potentially harmful situation involving a bear attack, quickly warding off danger by distracting the beast • Wrote a manual on basic camp activities, now used as the main source of educational material for all camp participants

In line with the definition of empty nest, 25 participants who had no children were excluded from the study, while the remaining 814 elderly adults with at least one child were included for analysis.

We used EHCs as recruitment sites because they provide health - related information that can be used for eligibility screening purposes, and their clients are usually willing to participate in health - related studies endorsed by the Department of Health, HKSAR.37 Although EHCs» clients are representative of the general population of older adults in terms of age and SES, 37 they tend to be more health conscious.38 To examine the potential bias (better mental health) associated with recruiting participants from the EHCs, we recruited approximately 30 % of the sample (n = 258) from elderly community centres with no formal provision of medical and health services.

Participants: A sample of 354 cognitively able elderly nursing home residents in Lebanon was selected for the study.

In contrast, given greater emphasis on the extended family, collectivism (Barbopoulos, Fisharah, Clark, & El - Khatib, 2002), and the responsibility for children to care for elderly parents in Egypt (Fadel - Girgis, 1983; Yount & Agree, 2004), we predicted that Egyptian participants would report higher ideal communal strength for maternal relationships following marriage, and that women would be expected to provide greater caregiving within the family based on more traditional gender roles.