European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, Volume 4, Issue 2

Alzheimer's disease has become one of the most prevalent and worrying diseases in our society due to the impact that it has on the patient as well as family members and caregivers. Largely due to the fact that nowadays pharmacological treatments are...

Chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, may limit the older adults’ ability to execute daily life activities; generating tiredness and/or overload on the caregivers. Objective: To determine the existing re...

Case description: Woman, 79 years old. Medical history: hypertension, Atrial fibrillation (AF) permanent treated with acenocoumarol and mitral insufficiency. Barthel 90, Lowton-Brody. 2. The patient came to the emergency room for rib pain (musculoske...

Within the elderly population, the specific circumstances that some of the elderly find themselves due to certain socio-cultural factors make them more likely to be abused while residing in assisted living residences, due to the facts that the abuse...

The work presented aims to analyze the similarities and differences in health and quality of life of family caregivers and professionals serving seniors in a position of dependency. Specifically, the results presented were obtained from the evaluatio...

Rate the elderly nutritionally will allow us to achieve and maintain good nutritional status in the elderly population. Objectives: 1 Assessment of nutritional status of the population.. Two. Evaluation of population intake according to recommended i...

Resilience was a concept introduced in the study of responses and positive adaptation of people living in risky environments, contexts and situations that posed potential threats to normal development like poverty, disease and violence. Subsequently...

This paper is part of a widest study about quality of life of older people who are enrolled in a university programme for seniors. This part belongs to a the first phase, focused on the assessment of the quality of life of senior students enrolled in...

We conducted a randomized, controlled study in order to investigate the feasibility, security as well as the effects of the practice of mindfulness upon the evolution of AD. The efficacy of a Mindfulness-based Cognitive Stimulation program for Alzhei...

Alzheimer type dementia is one of the main health problems, due to the disability and dependence it produces. The implementation of Law 39/2006 attempts to respond to the needs by means of a catalogue of socio-health services and resources to provide...