Background The development of bionic legs has seen substantial improvements in the past
years but people with lower-limb amputation still suffer from impairments in mobility (eg …

This review aimed to identify the areas of need that older people have, and the available
solutions. In particular, the robotic solutions are explored and critiqued and areas for future …

There is a bidirectional relationship between depression and chronic medical disorders. The
adverse health risk behaviors and psychobiological changes associated with depression …

This paper introduces and applies an operationalization of mental health as a syndrome of
symptoms of positive feelings and positive functioning in life. Dimensions and scales of …

About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric
disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common …

To lay the groundwork for devising, improving and implementing strategies to prevent or
delay the onset of disability in the elderly, we conducted a systematic literature review of …

Patients with chronic medical illness have a high prevalence of major depressive illness.
Major depression may decrease the ability to habituate to the aversive symptoms of chronic …

OBJECTIVES: To develop a simple method for identifying community‐dwelling vulnerable
older people, defined as persons age 65 and older at increased risk of death or functional …

Objective To establish the reliability and validity of a 10‐item short form of the CES‐D (CESD‐
10). Design Cross‐sectional and longitudinal follow‐up over 3 years. Standardized …

Background: The elderly population is large in general and growing due to advancement of
health care education. These people are faced with numerous physical, psychological and …