Retirement, Home Care and the Importance of Gender by Anders Brändström, Glenn Sandström

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CONTRIBUTION OF PHYSIOTHERAPY IN REDUCING THE RISK OF FALL IN THE ELDERLY by Cătălina-Mihaela Dascălu, Marius Neculăeș, Lucaci Paul

“…Nowadays, one of the major concerns of the specialists in the field of health is represented by finding optimal solutions to prevent falls among the elderly.The study was carried out on a group of 10 elderly people from a retirement home in Iasi, who were given a customized physiotherapy program, after being functionally evaluated using Tinetti walking test, Tinetti balance test and Romberg test.The research results highlight an improvement in balance and muscle control following specific physiotherapy programs.The conclusions of the current study highlight the fact that physiotherapy programs can reduce the risk of falls in the elderly by improving balance and walking abilities.…”
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THE EFFICIENCY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF LUMBAR DISCOPATHY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS by Cătălina-Mihaela Dascălu, Marius Neculăeș, Lucaci Paul

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Protect or prevent? A practicable framework for the dilemmas of COVID-19 vaccine prioritization. by Raghu Arghal, Harvey Rubin, Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, Saswati Sarkar

“…We then determine the optimal strategy for a large range of parameter values representative of various US states, countries, and case studies including retirement homes and prisons. The optimal is almost always one of a few candidate strategies, and, even when not, the suboptimality of the best among these candidates is minimal. …”
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Association of hearing loss with cognitive function and mental health in Africa: A systematic review by Abdulazeez Ahmed, Fatimah Tsiga-Ahmed, Nafisatu Bello-Muhammad, Abdulrazaq Ajiya, Mustapha Gudaji, Denes Stefler

“…The majority of studies were conducted among special populations (i.e., retirement homes and special schools), with most participants being female. …”
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Swiss Orthopaedics Minimal Dataset: First Pilot Report of Reliability and Validity by Thorsten Jentzsch, Claudio Dora, Urs Müller, Mazda Farshad

“…The test-retest study population (n = 60; lost to follow-up: n = 7 (12%)) was drawn from three retirement homes (in 2013), while the test study population (n = 14,180; excluded (e.g., duplicates): n = 1,990 (14%)) consisted of patients from a university hospital (in 2014–2017). …”
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