Background Functional decline is common in nursing home residents. Nursing staff can help prevent this decline, by encouraging residents to be more active in functional...

Background Despite the detrimental effects of physical inactivity for older adults, especially aged residents of residential care settings may spend much time in inactive...

Background Estimation of incidence of the state of undiagnosed chronic disease provides a crucial missing link for the monitoring of chronic disease epidemics and determining...

Background There is an urgent need for novel, noninvasive biomarkers to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the predementia stages and to predict the rate of...

Background Pressures on informal caregivers are likely to increase due to increasing life expectancy and health care costs, which stresses the importance of prevention of...

Abstract Background Despite the detrimental effects of physical inactivity for older adults, especially aged residents of residential care settings may spend much time in...