ABSTRACT Objective To analyze the relationship between hospitalization and the occurrence of delirium in older adults with physical frailty. Method Cross-sectional study carried out in a public hospital in southern Brazil. Hospitalized older adults aged ≥ 60 years participated. Sociodemographic a...
ABSTRACT Objective: Compare the nursing workload according to the condition of frailty in elderly people in an intensive care unit (ICU). Method: A cross-sectional study whose sample included patients aged ≥60 years who were hospitalized for ≥24 hours in the ICU of a university hospital in ...
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify and analyze the sociodemographic and health factors and the social support network of the elderly associated with frailty in the assessments carried out between 2007/2008 and 2018. Methods: This is a longitudinal study with elderly people aged ≥65 years living in t...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the association between cognitive impairment and physical frailty in older adults in secondary health care. Method: This is a cross-sectional study carried out with people aged ≥ 60 years, assisted at a geriatric and gerontology outpatient clinic. For cognitive scre...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the association between self-reported fragility and quality of life in older adults. Method: Cross-sectional study carried out with Brazilian older adults between July and October 2020. Three instruments were applied to obtain bio sociodemographic, frailty data and qualit...
ABSTRACT Objective To investigate the potential role of the Vulnerable Elders Survey to identify older adults with limited life expectancy in primary healthcare settings. Method This cross-sectional study was performed in all (nine) healthcare units in Jatai, Goiás (Brazil) from July to December 201...
RESUMO Objetivo Verificar a correlação entre a independência funcional e o risco de quedas em um grupo de idosos institucionalizados. Método Estudo transversal, observacional, quantitativo, realizado em três Instituições de Longa Permanência para Idosos no MunicÃpio de Belém, de ambos os gÃ...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the frailty syndrome in the elderly nursing diagnosis in elderly with chronic diseases of a health district of the Federal District. Method: A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with elderly patients served at the Basic Health Units, who pre...
RESUMO Objetivo: Identificar os desfechos dos estudos sobre velocidade da marcha e seu emprego como marcador de fragilidade fÃsica em idosos da comunidade. Método: Revisão sistemática da literatura realizada nas bases de dados LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE/ PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus e ProQuest. Os es...
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 ...