Treatment and intervention for sustaining functional activities in community-dwelling elderly people
Ogawa, S.; Ouchi, Y.
Clinical Calcium 18(11): 1622-1626
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0917-5857 PMID: 18974452 Document Number: 615945
In order to sustain functional activities in the elderly, promotion of nursing care and preventive intervention is important in terms of successful aging and healthy longevity. In particular, reduction of falls and fall-related injuries as well as treatments of osteoporosis is necessary for keeping activities of daily living. Fall-prevention programs and interventions including exercise and nutrition are recently prevailing among community-dwelling elderly Japanese people, some of which are revealed to have beneficial effects.