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FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE [11 records]

Record 1 2024-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rehabilitation (Medicine)
CONT

[The] article provides recommendations so that clinicians can be better informed when treating [bilateral transradial amputation] patients in the subacute phase and more quickly progress patients toward functional independence and discharge to the community.

Key term(s)
  • sub-acute phase

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réadaptation (Médecine)

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Sociology
CONT

Disabilities in old age are associated with a higher mortality rate, a decreased life span, greater chronic health problems... and increased expenditures for health care. Disabilities resulting in an inability to ambulate, feed oneself or manage the basic activities of daily living like toileting or self-hygiene(e. g., bathing) are very strong predictors of loss of functional independence...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Sociologie
CONT

Pour un gériatre, la perte d'autonomie, [c'est-à-dire] la perte d'autonomie fonctionnelle, sera alors une limitation ou une restriction des activités de la vie quotidienne : soins personnels, mobilité, tâches domestiques, communication et, dans les cas extrêmes, perte de tout ou partie des fonctions mentales.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Sociology
CONT

Functional independence is the ability to perform daily living tasks without help.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Sociologie
DEF

[...] capacité de pouvoir réaliser les activités de la vie quotidienne sans l'aide d'autrui.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicina, Higiene y Salud
  • Sociología
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Record 4 2018-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Sociology of Old Age
CONT

Functional decline is a new loss of independence in self-care capabilities and is typically associated with deterioration in mobility and in the performance of activities of daily living(ADLs) such as dressing, toileting, and bathing. When older adults are hospitalized, the medical illness causing hospitalization can cause a decline in functional status. Functional decline can also be caused by other factors related to hospitalization such as extended bed rest, reduced daily participation in ADLs, and inappropriate use of mobility-restricting devices such as indwelling catheters and intravenous lines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Sociologie de la vieillesse
CONT

Le déclin fonctionnel, c'est une nouvelle diminution dans la capacité à effectuer ses soins personnels. Il est habituellement associé à une détérioration de la mobilité et de la capacité à accomplir les activités de la vie quotidienne, comme s'habiller, faire sa toilette et se laver. Lorsque des adultes plus âgés sont hospitalisés, le trouble médical occasionnant l'hospitalisation peut entraîner un déclin de l'état fonctionnel. Toutefois, le déclin fonctionnel peut également être causé par d'autres facteurs liés à l'hospitalisation, comme un alitement prolongé, une participation réduite aux activités de la vie quotidienne et un usage inapproprié d'appareils entravant la mobilité, par exemple des sondes à demeure et des lignes intraveineuses.

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Physiotherapy
DEF

A person skilled in the techniques of physical therapy and qualified to administer treatments prescribed by a physician.

CONT

Physiotherapists are becoming more prominent on the home care team. They enable consumers to remain in their home by working to improve the mobility and functional independence of consumers in the home environment.... They provide assessment and treatment, including education and pain control, for a variety of conditions related to cardio-respiratory, orthopedic and neurological impairment or injury, and for cancer and arthritic conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Physiothérapie
DEF

Spécialiste de physiothérapie.

OBS

[Au Québec], pour porter le titre de physiothérapeute (pht), il faut avoir complété une « Maîtrise en sciences » en physiothérapie et être membre de l'Ordre professionnel de la physiothérapie du Québec (OPPQ).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Fisioterapia
CONT

[...] existen programas de fisioterapia diseñados y dirigidos por fisioterapeutas que, realizados con personas mayores que viven en residencias, han conseguido mantener o incluso mejorar diversas funciones que favorecen la prolongación del período libre de incapacidad por el que pasan los mayores antes de sufrir algún tipo de disfunción que les haga dependientes o discapacitados para el desarrollo de determinadas tareas de la vida cotidiana. [...] los últimos trabajos publicados manifiestan la obtención de importantes beneficios en capacidades como el equilibrio, flexibilidad, coordinación, disminución de la frecuencia cardiaca, aumento de la capacidad vital y el índice de masa corporal [...]

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Record 6 2013-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
DEF

A population whose members may have additional needs before, during, and after an incident in functional areas, including but not limited to : maintaining independence, communication, transportation, supervision, and medical care.

OBS

Individuals in need of additional response assistance may include those who have disabilities; who live in institutionalized settings; who are elderly; who are children; who are from diverse cultures, who have limited English proficiency, or who are non-English-speaking ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Probability (Statistics)
  • Cognitive Psychology
DEF

The relation between two dependant variables in a situation in which one variable does and the other one does not vary as a function of an independent variable.

CONT

[The author] argued that stochastic rather than functional independence of two memory task measures provides better evidence for independence of two memory systems. Briefly, if a given memory task engages two completely separate memory systems, then the product(measure) of one system should be uncorrelated with that of the other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Probabilités (Statistique)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

L'indépendance fonctionnelle renvoie à l'effet d'une variable expérimentale indépendante dans deux situations différentes (interaction de premier ordre ou simple dissociation) ou à l'effet de deux variables expérimentales indépendantes dans deux situations (interaction de second ordre ou double dissociation).

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rehabilitation (Medicine)
  • Sociology of Old Age
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

A scale that is used to measure a patient’s progress to function independently while in rehabilitative care.

CONT

A FIM [functional independence measure] score is typically collected within 72 hours after admission to the rehabilitation unit, within 72 hours before discharge, and between 80 to 180 days after discharge.... The FIM score ranges from 1 to 7, with 1(Total Assistance) being the worst possible score and 7(Complete Independence) being the best possible score.

CONT

... the Features-Resource Trade-Off Game(Features Game) of functional recovery... compares preferences for recovery that foster independent living among 18 functional status items that make up the functional independence measure used in rehabilitative care. These status items include both motor skills(eating, grooming, bathing, dressing, bladder management, walking/wheelchair mobility) and cognitive skills(comprehension, expression, social interaction, problem solving, memory). The game's 18 functions are rated in seven levels ranging from complete dependence on assistance to total independence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réadaptation (Médecine)
  • Sociologie de la vieillesse
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

Instrument sensible et fidèle permettant d'apprécier les progrès d'un sujet souffrant d'une déficience fonctionnelle et se trouvant en phase de réhabilitation et de réadaptation.

CONT

La MIF [mesure d'indépendance fonctionnelle] comprend 18 tâches (on parle d'items) avec 7 niveaux d'évaluation. [...] La note varie de 18 points (si le sujet est totalement dépendant) à 126 points (si le sujet est totalement autonome).

Spanish

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Record 9 - external organization data 1994-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
DEF

... those effects resulting from a lack of independence or separation, either physical or functional, between systems or components or operating actions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
DEF

Effets dus à un manque d'indépendance ou de séparation, de nature physique ou fonctionnelle, entre les systèmes ou leurs composants, ou manoeuvres desdits systèmes.

Spanish

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Record 10 1992-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering
  • Nuclear Science and Technology
DEF

... the separation of the components of a system by a suitable distance and/or by a suitable physical barrier from other systems.

CONT

Physical independence generally lends protection against common mode or cross-linked events. It may also assist in the achievement of functional independence for some types of intersystem influences....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ingénierie
  • Sciences et techniques nucléaires
DEF

isolement des composants d'un système des autres systèmes par une distance convenable ou par des barrières physiques appropriées ou par les deux. L'indépendance physique vise généralement à assurer la sécurité en cas de défaillance de mode commun ou de défaillance d'interaction et peut également permettre l'indépendance fonctionnelle dans le cas de certains types d'influences entre systèmes (...)

Spanish

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Record 11 1981-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Power Stations
DEF

Cross-link effects are those effects resulting from a lack of independence or separation, either physical or functional, between systems or components or operating actions.

OBS

Information obtained from Atomic Energy Control Board.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centrales nucléaires
OBS

Renseignement fourni par la Commission de contrôle de l'énergie atomique.

Spanish

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