Resumo Objetivo Analisar a associação entre o risco de queda e a sÃndrome da fragilidade em idosos que vivem no domicÃlio. Métodos Estudo transversal com 261 idosos, de ambos os sexos, residentes em domicÃlios de um municÃpio paulista. A coleta ocorreu por meio dos instrumentos: Perfil DemogrÃ...
Objective: to synthesize the knowledge about the association of frailty syndrome and cognitive impairment in older adults. Method: the Joanna Briggs Institute's systematic review of etiology and risk factors was adopted. The search for the studies was conducted by two independent reviewers in the databa...
Objective to compare the frailty syndrome among elderly people living at home in two Brazilian cities and to identify factors related to sociodemographic and health-related variables. Method population-based cross-sectional study with 480 elderly individuals from the cities of Ribeirão Preto/SP and J...
Objetivos: estimar a prevalência de fragilidade em mulheres idosas, residentes no municÃpio de João Pessoa (ParaÃba), e averiguar a associação entre a fragilidade e as variáveis clÃnicas morbidade referida e capacidade funcional desse grupo. Método: a amostra foi constituÃda por 166 idosas, na ...
Abstract OBJECTIVE To analyze the prevalence of falls and frailty syndrome and the association between these two syndromes in the elderly population. METHOD Systematic review, without restriction of dates, in English, Portuguese and Spanish languages, in the databases PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS and in the ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the association between frailty with hospitalization and institutionalization in a follow-up study of elderly residents. Method: the follow-up study was performed in 2008 and 2013 with elderly of both genders, aged 65 years and older who were living in the community-d...
Este estudo objetivou caracterizar os idosos internados na clÃnica médica de um hospital terciário, segundo variáveis sociodemográficas, e identificar a fragilidade nos mesmos. Estudo descritivo e transversal. A coleta de dados foi realizada no perÃodo de outubro de 2010 a março de 2011, utilizand...