Evaluation of bio-psycho-social frailty in older persons on the territory: the method and the experience of the "Medesano Health House".

Background And Aim Of The Work: Frailty in older people is a situation of risk of dependency caused by many factors. On this consideration, the Medesano  city started a survey on the condition of fragility of people >75 aimed at building a monitoring system for timely interventions on the factors of risk and implementation of measures for preventing dependency.

Methods: The survey was conducted jointly by the family doctor and the social worker in the City.

Gesture and Symbolic Representation in Italian and English-Speaking Canadian 2-Year-Olds.

Analyses of elicited pantomime, primarily of English-speaking children, show that preschool-aged children are more likely to symbolically represent an object with gestures depicting an object's form rather than its function. In contrast, anecdotal reports of spontaneous gesture production in younger children suggest that children use multiple representational techniques. This study examined the spontaneous gestures of sixty-four 2-year-old Italian children and English-speaking Canadian children, primarily from middle-class Caucasian families.

Motoric characteristics of representational gestures produced by young children in a naming task.

This study explores the form of representational gestures produced by forty-five hearing children (age range 2 ; 0-3 ; 1) asked to label pictures in words. Five pictures depicting objects and five pictures depicting actions which elicited more representational gestures were chosen for more detailed analysis. The range of gestures produced for each item varied from 3 to 27 for a total of 128 gestures.

Manual actions affect vocalizations of infants.

Upper limb gestures, as well as transitive actions (i.e. acted upon an object) when either executed or observed affect speech.