Sentences with phrase «for elderly subjects»

A computerised psychiatric diagnostic system and case nomenclature for elderly subjects: GMS and AGECAT

Not exact matches

The ACCC alleged that a Lux sales representative called upon five elderly women in their homes under the premise of a free vacuum cleaner maintenance check, and that each of the women was then subjected to unfair and pressuring sales tactics to induce them into purchasing a vacuum cleaner for a price of up to $ 2280.

And so we need social care for our elderly which is not subject to a post code lottery, but available to all — to the hard working majority, and not just the few who can pay.

If the people likely to apply to the study are elderly or unemployed folks desperate for money, or if the community the center is in is poor, the going rates for research subjects» time go down, to a level where they'll actually have to weigh the costs and benefits before getting involved.

In some 3000 elderly people, Nir Barzilai of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and his colleagues plan to conduct a trial in which half the subjects would get a placebo and half would get an old (indeed, ancient) drug for type 2 diabetes called metformin, which has been shown to modify aging in some animal studies.

In this study, we compared a group of «supernormal» young lean subjects with the most common form of type 2 diabetes in obese elderly diabetic subjects in order to optimize our conditions for finding significant differences.

Study The researchers recruited seventy test subjects in homes for the elderly, who were willing to meditate forty minutes every day (twenty minutes in the morning and twenty minutes in the evening) for a period of three years.

In a recent study, elderly subjects (more than sixty years old) were assigned to one of two dietary groups: one group ate three eggs per day and the other ate the same amount in egg substitutes for a one - month period.3 The result of this study was a significant increase in both LDL and HDL cholesterol for those who ate eggs, but the ratio between the two was not affected significantly.

«These findings suggested that excessive soybean ingestion for a certain duration might suppress thyroid function and cause goiters in healthy people, especially elderly subjects.»

In addition, the hip adductors are subject to age - related atrophy in the elderly (Johnson et al. 2004), which makes programs designed to rehabilitate this muscle group important for both athletic and general populations.

From a base of 1,000 elderly men and women, Bassey et al. (1989) showed that shoulder abduction decreased gradually and consistently with age and was about 25 % less in these elderly subjects compared with norms for a younger population.

While the subject of student loan repayment continues to be a struggle for recent graduates in the current job market, one elderly Florida man is finding that his unpaid student loans is resulting in a smaller Social Security check each month — and a reduced ability to provide for himself which has been an issue of contention recently

His subjects included ju - ju men and voodoo priests and priestesses, but also the elderly for whom photography was likely to play a role not just in life but also in the afterlife.

Travel insurance for elderly companies may also be subject to constantly fluctuating prices.