ABSTRACT Objective: Identifying prevalence of frailty in elderly caregivers inserted in a high social vulnerability context and its correlation with sociodemographic and health aspects. Method: Descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study. Forty elderly caregivers were evaluated with: questionn...
Cuidadores/psicología,
Cuidadores/normas,
Cognición,
Estudios Transversales,
Fragilidad/psicología,
Fragilidad/terapia,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Prevalencia,
Psicometría/instrumentación,
Psicometría/métodos,
Factores Sexuales,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
ABSTRACT Objective: describing the changes in frailty conditions over the period of a year after hospital discharge, verifying predictive variables for changes in frailty conditions and frailty phenotype components according to worsening, improving and stable groups. Method: a longitudinal survey carri...
ABSTRACT Objective: investigating the association between frailty syndrome and sociodemographic characteristics in long-lived individuals of a community. Method: a cross-sectional study with a proportional stratified sample consisting of 243 long-lived individuals. A structured instrument, scales and t...
Objectives: to identify the prevalence of frailty among inpatient older adults in a clinical hospital and check the association of the socioeconomic and clinical characteristics with the state of frailty. Method: observational, cross-sectional and analytical study, conducted with 255 hospitalized patient...
