Frailty and cognitive performance of elderly in the context of social vulnerability.

Unlabelled: Elderly who live in the context of social vulnerability have lower education and socioeconomic status.

Objective: To analyze cognitive performance as a factor associated with frailty status in elderly living in contexts of social vulnerability.

Methods: An exploratory, comparative, cross-sectional study using a quantitative method was conducted with elderly people registered at Social Assistance Reference Centers.

Postural stability of athletes in Special Olympics.

To assess body equilibrium in athletes with intellectual disability, 60 adults with intellectual disability (30 Down syndrome, 30 nonsyndromic) participating in the 2005 Italian Special Olympics games were tested, and data for 30 healthy control adults were tested. Each subject performed four posturographic tests with open eyes, open eyes and cotton rolls between antagonist teeth, and closed eyes and cotton rolls between teeth. For each subject and test, oscillations of the body's center of foot pressure on a force platform were measured.

Three-dimensional hard tissue palatal size and shape in Down syndrome subjects.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate palatal morphology in Down syndrome (Ds) subjects, focusing on the effect of dental formula on the hard palate to assist clinicians when planning dental rehabilitation. Palatal landmarks were digitized with a three-dimensional (3D) computerized digitizer on the dental casts of 47 Ds subjects (23 dentate males, 9 edentulous males, and 15 dentate females) aged 20-45 years, 37 dentate reference individuals (20 males and 17 females) aged 30-39 years, and 14 edentulous reference males aged 55-72 years. The co-ordinates of the palatal landmarks were used to construct a mathematical equation of palatal shape, independent of dimensions.