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Activity groupings reflecting functional characteristics required in daily life in institutionalized dependent females in the old old elderly group

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Abstract

Objectives

This study aimed to determine the activity groupings reflecting functional characteristics required in daily life for the institutionalized dependent females in the old-old elderly group, by examining the interrelationships of activities based on actual achievement characteristics.

Methods

The participants were 697 dependent elderly living at welfare institutions in Japan and 344 old-old females were used for analysis. Factor analysis, based on Promax with the Kaiser Normalization method, was conducted using 74 activities of daily living (ADL) items to determine activity groups. Furthermore, whether each activity group could be classified into sub-groups was confirmed by applying factor analysis to the activities consisting of each activity group.

Results

Four activity groups of lower extremity activities, manual activities, changing and holding posture activities, and upper extremity and dexterous manual activities were interpreted. Except for the manual activity group, these activity groups were classified into two sub-groups.

Conclusions

These activity groupings were characterized by similarities of the body parts used in achievement and the difficulty of activity. The activity groupings obtained in this study are considered to be useful in ADL assessment focusing on evaluating functional characteristics of the dependent elderly.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

    Shinichi Demura

  2. Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan

    Susumu Sato

  3. Yonago National College of Technology, Tottori, Japan

    Masaki Minami

  4. Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University, Gifu, Japan

    Kohsho Kasuga

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Demura, S., Sato, S., Minami, M. et al. Activity groupings reflecting functional characteristics required in daily life in institutionalized dependent females in the old old elderly group. Environ Health Prev Med 8, 166–172 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02897910

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