Making the Decision to Stay at Home: Developing a Community-Based Care Process Model for Aging in Place.

The care of older adults who wish to spend their old age at home should be regulated in every country. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the steps for developing a community-based care process model (CBCPM), applied to a real-world phenomenon, using an inductive, theory-generative research approach to enable aging at home. The contribution to practice is that the collaboration team experts facilitate the application of the process in their own work as non-professional human resources.

Independence and Caregiver Preferences Among Community-Dwelling Older People in Slovenia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Although Slovenia is becoming an aging society, very little is known about the abilities and needs of home-dwelling older people or their preferences regarding assistance. The aim of the study was to explore the need for assistance in daily activities among older Slovenian people living at home. Older adults aged between 65 and 97 years (N = 358) participated in the cross-sectional survey study.

Patients' Risk of Causing Traffic Violations and Traffic Accidents while Driving.

Objectives: This study examines whether drivers suffering from epilepsy, chronic alcoholism and/or hazardous drinking, psychoactive substance abuse, other diseases of the nervous system, mental and behavioural disorders, cardiovascular diseases, severe diabetes, and severe eye diseases are at a greater risk of causing traffic accidents and traffic violations than drivers that cause accidents and violations without these diagnoses.

Methods: A case control study was carried out. The cases were drivers checked by a special medical committee in the period observed suffering from the diseases listed above.

Measurements of respiratory capacity in patients with neuromuscular diseases.

Weakening of the respiratory muscles in patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) threatens them with respiratory failure. The respiratory capacity of these patients is estimated by pulmonary functional tests. One of the most frequently used tests is the measurement of vital capacity (VC) and determination of the percentage share of the VC reference value (%VC).

Construction of anthropometric measuring chair (AMC) for lung function prediction.

An anthropometric measuring chair (AMC) was constructed in order to predict lung function parameters (vital capacity--FVC and forced expiratory flow in the first second-FEV1) in normal Caucasian subjects. Design of a chair was aimed toward the fast and reliable recording of body dimensions, particularly of the human thorax. Static and dynamic measurements of thorax dimensions, arm span and sitting height were used to predict FVC and FEV1 with an accuracy better than standard prediction equations based only on body height and age.