Browsing by Subject "activities of daily living"

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    • Adaptação transcultural da escala de avaliação de incapacidade em demência (Disability Assessment For Dementia - DAD) 

      Carthery-goulart, Maria Tereza; Areza-fegyveres, Renata; Schultz, Rodrigo R. [UNIFESP]; Okamoto, Ivan [UNIFESP]; Caramelli, Paulo; Bertolucci, Paulo Henrique Ferreira [UNIFESP]; Nitrini, Ricardo (Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2007-09-01)
      The original version of the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) was translated into Portuguese and back translated to English. The divergences of translation were identified and discussed, resulting in a version that ...

    • Adaptação transcultural e mensuração da validade e confiabilidade do functional capacity index (fci) 

      Peixe, Marina Biffani [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2015-08-31)
      cultural adaptation of the instrument measuring Functional Capacity Index (FCI) to the Portuguese language, and validation to the Brazilian reality, in addition to determining the psychometric properties, reliability and ...

    • Atividade física no lazer e sua relação com a evolução da capacidade funcional de idosos que vivem em comunidade 

      Ribeiro, Maria Claudia Martins [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)Brasil, 2019)
      Introduction: Population aging is a worldwide phenomenon and the Brazilian population is aging at a higher speed than the world average. By 2025, Brazil will have the 6th largest elderly population in the world with 32 ...

    • Comparative Postural Control in COPD Patients and Healthy Individuals During Dynamic and Static Activities 

      Porto, Elias F. [UNIFESP]; Pradella, Cristiane O. [UNIFESP]; Rocco, Carolina M. [UNIFESP]; Chueiro, Mario, Jr. [UNIFESP]; Maia, Rafaella Q. [UNIFESP]; Gananca, Fernando F. [UNIFESP]; Castro, Antonio A. M.; Nascimento, Oliver A. [UNIFESP]; Jardim, Jose R. [UNIFESP] (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017)
      PURPOSE: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have body balance deficits, with consequent fall risk. It is possible that body sway in patients with COPD affects their ability to perform daily activities. ...

    • Disability rank in vestibular older adults 

      Aratani, Mayra Cristina [UNIFESP]; Perracini, Monica Rodrigues; Caovilla, Heloisa Helena [UNIFESP]; Gazzola, Juliana Maria; Gananca, Mauricio Malavasi [UNIFESP]; Gananca, Fernando Freitas [UNIFESP] (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-01-01)
      Aim:To analyze the hierarchical structure of activities of daily living (ADL) among vestibular older adults, according to its power to discriminate disability.Methods:An exploratory cross-sectional study was conducted ...

    • Evaluation of properties of the Vestibular Disorders Activities of Daily Living Scale (Brazilian version) in an elderly population 

      Ricci, Natalia Aquaroni [UNIFESP]; Aratani, Mayra Cristina [UNIFESP]; Caovilla, Heloisa Helena [UNIFESP]; Cohen, Helen S.; Ganança, Fernando Freitas [UNIFESP] (Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Fisioterapia, 2014-05-16)
      Background:The Vestibular Disorders Activities of Daily Living Scale (VADL) is considered an important subjective assessment to evaluate patients suffering from dizziness and imbalance. Although frequently used, its metric ...

    • Factors associated with functional balance and mobility among elderly diabetic outpatients 

      Cordeiro, Renata Cereda [UNIFESP]; Jardim, José Roberto [UNIFESP]; Perracini, Monica Rodrigues; Ramos, Luiz Roberto [UNIFESP] (Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinologia e Metabologia, 2009-10-01)
      OBJECTIVES: To characterize balance and mobility among diabetic elderly outpatients and to estimate the extent to which functional balance and mobility abnormalities can be influenced by sociodemographic, clinical and other ...

    • Functional Disability in Alzheimer Disease A Validation Study of the Brazilian Version of the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD-Br) 

      Bahia, Valeria Santoro; Carthery-Goulart, Maria Teresa; Novelli, Marcia Maria Pires Camargo [UNIFESP]; Kato-Narita, Eliane M.; Areza-Fegyveres, Renata; Caramelli, Paulo; Nitrini, Ricardo (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010-07-01)
      Background: the assessment of activities of daily living (ADL) is important both for the diagnosis and staging of dementia. the objective of this study was to verify the applicability and validity of the Brazilian version ...

    • Is there correlation between cognition and functionality in severe dementia? The value of a performance-based ecological assessment for Alzheimer’s disease 

      Wajman, José Roberto [UNIFESP]; Oliveira, Fabricio Ferreira de [UNIFESP]; Marin, Sheilla de Medeiros Correia [UNIFESP]; Schultz, Rodrigo Rizek [UNIFESP]; Bertolucci, Paulo Henrique Ferreira [UNIFESP] (Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2014-11-01)
      Objective Besides significant cognitive decline, patients in later stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) also present global functional impairment, usually reported by their caregivers. This study searched for preserved ...

    • Neuropsychological performance in patients with subcortical stroke 

      Andrade, Silviane Pinheiro Campos de [UNIFESP]; Brucki, Sônia Maria Dozzi; Bueno, Orlando Francisco Amodeo [UNIFESP]; Siqueira Neto, José Ibiapina (Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2012-05-01)
      Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is characterized by cognitive compromise predominantly of executive dysfunction. OBJECTIVES: To assess cognitive functions in VCI, focusing on executive functions, to observe functional ...