Quando comparados com os idosos não institucionalizados, os institucionalizados apresentam um maior risco de queda. Esta resulta de interações complexas entre fatores intrÃnsecos e extrÃnsecos, constituindo assim, um problema de saúde pública que tem repercussões tanto para o idoso como para a fa...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to describe the development and validation of the Scale of Practices of Evaluation of Fall Risk Factors during Institutionalization of Elderly People and to describe the practices of evaluation of communication of fall risks to institutionalized elderly people. Methods: methodolo...
ABSTRACT Aims To understand how the fear of falls emerges and manifests itself in caregivers of institutionalized elders. Method It is a qualitative study, based on the Grounded Theory and carried out with 24 informal caregivers, 5 nurses, 2 physicians and 2 directors of two Portuguese nursing homes. D...
ABSTRACT Objective To know the institutionalization process and the functional clinical condition of elderly people who suffered family violence, from the perspective of the elderly and professionals. Methods Qualitative, which used oral history as a data collection technique. Held in a long-term insti...
O envelhecimento da população é um processo mundial, em decorrência do aumento da expectativa de vida, associada à s melhores condições de saúde. Embora as polÃticas públicas de saúde privilegiem a permanência e o cuidado da pessoa idosa no domicÃlio, é importante ressaltar que, com a evoluÃ...
Abstract OBJECTIVE To identify the incidence of mortality, diarrheal diseases, scabies and falls; and the prevalence of pressure ulcers - all of which are related to the safety ofinstitutionalized older adults. METHOD This was a documentary retrospective study developed in a long-term residential carei...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the perception of the elderly residents of a long-stay nursing home on the process of institutionalization. We interviewed 14 subjects, five women and nine men, aged between 60 and 92 years. Data collection was conducted with a semi-structured sociodemographic ...
