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 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...
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...
The objective of this study was to analyze the factors and their prevalence associated with family dysfunction, as well as the functional capacity of the elderly population, in the capital of the state of Goiás, Brazil. This was a cross-sectional and analytical study, which was developed with elderly pe...
This study aimed to identify the satisfaction of the elderly population in relation to the health care received in the Family Health Strategy, in Santa Cruz, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It is a descriptive quantitative study, with a sample of 101 older adults registered in the municipali...
Quality of life and depression are relevant to the health of the elderly. Studies indicate a positive association between religiosity and health. This study investigated quality of life, depressive symptoms and their relationship with religiosity in the elderly. The study included 287 older people from a...
The objective of this study was to describe the quality of sleep of aged individuals at home and in hospital. Descriptive study, conducted in the wards of a university hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, with 160 individuals (57.5% men, mean age 69.8 years) admitted for a period between 48 hours to five days...
