Valued Activities of Everyday Life Among the Very Old

Lefrançois, R; Leclerc, Gilbert; Dubé, Micheline; Hamel, Suzanne; Dea, Philippe Gaulin

doi:10.1300/j016v25n03_02

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“…As for the SMAF, the mean disability score after resection was À10.5, which could be seen as clinically relevant if we hypothesised that none of the patients suffered any disability before resection [24]. Unfortunately, the lack of preoperative SMAF evaluation in those patients greatly hampered the conclusion on the precise impact of the resection on patient's functional autonomy.…”

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Subjective and objective assessment of quality of life after chest wall resection

Heuker

Lengelé

Delecluse

et al. 2011

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Subjective and objective assessment of quality of life after chest wall resection

Heuker

Lengelé

Delecluse

et al. 2011

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

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“…Social activities in the preceding month were assessed with the Social Activities Questionnaire (social portion of the Elderly Activity Inventory Questionnaire, MAS) (Lefrançois, Leclerc, Dubé, Hamel, & Gaulin, 2001). It evaluates participation in 19 types of valued activities such as shopping, attending cultural events, traveling, and participating in community organizations, to a maximum score of 21-higher scores indicate more social activities.…”

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“…Measurements of social functioning status included reporting of stressful life events, through the question "Have you recently suffered a stressful life event (e.g., personal illness / death of a loved one)?" in the Elderly Nutrition Screening tool (ENS © ) (Payette, et al, 1999), and social activities in the preceding month, assessed with the Social Activities Questionnaire (social portion of the Elderly Activity Inventory Questionnaire) (Lefrançois, et al, 2001 …”

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Nutritional predictors of depression in a cohort of community-dwelling elderly Canadians: NuAge cohort

GougeonLaura¹

2014

Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab.

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Depression is associated with decreased quality of life and high mortality risk at all ages and, despite having lower prevalence in community-dwelling seniors compared to other stages of the life span or institutionalized elderly, it negatively affects seniors' health outcomes. Most evidence linking late-life depression, defined as first onset after 65 years of age, with dietary factors comes from cross-sectional studies, which cannot provide information on whether declines in diet were a consequence of depression-the reverse causality hypothesis. The Quebec Longitudinal Study on Nutrition and Aging (NuAge) provides an ideal setting to explore such a relationship among a healthy, community-dwelling elderly population. Diet is hypothesized to be a factor associated with depression. Some longitudinal evidence from studies with middle-aged adults suggests that dietary patterns such as the Mediterranean or patterns deemed "healthy" are protective against depression, while "western" and "unhealthy" patterns are risk factors for the disease. B-vitamins are important cofactors in neurotransmitter synthesis and in the enzymes of the one-carbon metabolism, which has been hypothesized to have an aetiological role in depression through its neurotoxic derivates, such as homocysteine. Nonetheless, it is still largely unknown how depression affects nutrient intake in the elderly population, raising the question of the directionality of the association. Therefore, ii the three objectives of this thesis were to explore the longitudinal associations of i) dietary patterns and macronutrient intake and of ii) B6, B12 and folate intakes with the incidence of depression in late life; and iii) to investigate whether depression significantly affects short-term nutrient intakes (reverse causality effect) in comparison to intakes among non-depressed seniors.Data for this study have been obtained from the NuAge cohort, a 4-y longitudinal study of 1,793 community-dwelling men and women aged 68 to 82 years at baseline. The main outcome is incidence of depression as defined by scores in the 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale ≥11 and or antidepressant medication use over the three years of follow-up. Participants were free of depression at the study's baseline through the exclusion of those with GDS scores ≥11 or antidepressant use at the time of the recruitment. Individuals with invalid or missing dietary information were also excluded. Dietary patterns were created through principal component analysis on amount (grams) of food items consumed in each of the 32 predefined food categories. Sex-specific tertiles of intake were created from the mean of three non-consecutive 24h-recalls. Multiple logistic regression models were adjusted for several demographic, health, and social confounders. For the study of the reverse causality hypothesis, we conducted a case-control nested within the NuAge cohort. Participants free of iii depression at baseline who developed depression at some point of follow-up were matched by age group and sex with...

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“…Social participation-The social portion of the "Elderly Activity Inventory Questionnaire" 25 and Statistics Canada's Participation and Activity Limitation Survey 26 were adapted to assess social participation. Two questions were added to Statistics Canada's Participation and Activity Limitation Survey and the response option 'at least once a year' was changed to 'less than once a month'.…”

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Associations Between Perceived Proximity to Neighborhood Resources, Disability, and Social Participation Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the VoisiNuAge Study

Levasseur

Gauvin

Richard

et al. 2011

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Objective-To examine the associations between perceived proximity to neighborhood resources, disability and social participation, and the potential moderating effect of perceived proximity to neighborhood resources on the association between disability and social participation among community-dwelling older women and men.Design-Cross-sectional. Setting-Community.Participants-Older adults (296 women; 258 men). Interventions-Not applicable.Main outcome measures-Data on age, education, depressive symptoms, frequency of participation in community activities, perceived proximity to neighborhood resources (services and amenities), and functional autonomy in daily activities (disability) were collected by interviewer-administered questionnaire.Results-Greater perceived proximity to resources and lower level of disability were associated with greater social participation for both women (R 2 =0.10; p<0.001) and men (R 2 =0.05; p<0.01). The association between disability and social participation did not vary as a function of perceived

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Valued Activities of Everyday Life Among the Very Old

Cited by 25 publications

References 25 publications

Subjective and objective assessment of quality of life after chest wall resection

Subjective and objective assessment of quality of life after chest wall resection

Nutritional predictors of depression in a cohort of community-dwelling elderly Canadians: NuAge cohort

Associations Between Perceived Proximity to Neighborhood Resources, Disability, and Social Participation Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the VoisiNuAge Study

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