Abstract Objective. To evaluate the improvement of the elderly's functional capacity before intervention in cognitive stimulation workshops, according to subgroups. Methods. Quantitative study, by before and after evaluation, following during one year the cognitive stimulation intervention, conducted a...
ABSTRACT Objective: identify the knowledge and care practices concerning urinary incontinence in elderly women and develop a care proposal for these women for the purpose of health promotion in Primary Health Care. Method: a qualitative, convergent care research was undertaken. The data were collecte...
ABSTRACT Objective: identify the factors associated with subjective wellbeing in older adults. Method: analytical, cross-sectional study developed in Chile. The sample consisted of 20,351 seniors, who answered a question on overall life satisfaction in the National Socio-Economic Survey, 2011. Subjec...
Objetivo: Identificar os fatores que influenciam a solidão das pessoas idosas. Metodologia: Tratou-se de uma pesquisa descritiva e quantitativa, realizada com 94 idosos conforme a Res. do cns 466/12. Foi utilizado um formulário dividido em duas partes: a primeira continha os dados de caracterização s...
objetivo foi identificar como a segurança do paciente idoso hospitalizado vem sendo abordada na literatura científica. Trata-se de revisão integrativa realizada nas bases de dados Literatura Latino Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, Scientific Eletronic Library Online, Medical Literature An...
Objetivo: Caracterizar idosos que hemodialisam em uma Unidade Nefrológica para identificar eventos associados à hemodiálise e percepções de incômodo com os efeitos da doença renal. Metodologia: Estudo transversal, descritivo e analítico de abordagem quantitativa, com 35 idosos que hemodialisam em...
Objetivou-se avaliar relações sociais e íntimas de pessoas idosas com hanseníase. Abordagem
quantitativa, com 60 idosos em dois Programas de Controle da Hanseníase, em uma capital do nordeste brasileiro, utilizando o Domínio das Relações Sociais do World Health Organiza...
This study aimed to analyze the association between the duration of the nap and the variables gender, age, education, family income, frailty levels and frailty criteria of community-dwelling elderly. This was a descriptive and cross-sectional study, an excerpt from the multicenter project Frailty in Elde...
ABSTRACT An academic experience report of the university extension project: Mutual Help Group for Relatives of Elderly Living with Alzheimer's or Related Diseases. Alzheimer's is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, which is part of the group of dementias, being characterized by the deterioration of ...
ABSTRACT This study aimed to characterize the elderly receiving outpatient care in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, concerning their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, health condition, medication usage and adherence to medication; to identify their self-reported reasons for adher...
