Com o crescente envelhecimento populacional é possÃvel verificar um importante aumento de morbidades, não apenas no que se refere ao surgimento de doenças crônicas, mas também à detecção de importantes alterações cognitivas e incapacidades fÃsicas. Como exemplo, cita-se a fragilidade,...
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...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the available evidence in the nursing literature about financial-patrimonial elder abuse. Method: integrative review of articles indexed in the databases CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, LILACS and MEDLINE, from 2007 to 2017. The combination of controlled and uncontrolled ...
ABSTRACT Objective: To synthesize the knowledge produced on best nursing practices in long-term care for elderly at home, in order to promote healthy aging. Method: A systematic review, based on the Joanna Briggs Institute's proposal: without restriction of dates; in the English, Portuguese and Spanish...
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...
ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the occurrence and factors associated to social, individual and programmatic vulnerability among older adults. Method: A household and cross-sectional survey conducted with 701 community-dwelling older adults. For evaluation of the individual component, we used the frailty...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze economic-financial and patrimonial cases of elder abuse, recorded in the specialized police station for security and protection of the elderly of a capital city in the northeast region of Brazil. Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out with data extracted from p...
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 ...