ENQUADRAMENTO: A amputação é um evento gerador de enorme sofrimento físico e psicológico para as pessoas, com significativas implicações familiares, sociais e económicas. Torna-se assim urgente apostar numa intervenção precoce de reabilitação e de medidas de prevenção secundária, sobretudo...
Enquadramento: Ao envelhecimento associam-se problemas agudos e crónicos que interferem com a mobilidade da pessoa idosa e a sua independência. Atualmente, existem no mercado diversas tipologias de andarilho com diferentes perfis de desempenho funcional do idoso, que visam compensar limitações físic...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the functional capacity of long-lived older adults from Amazonas. Method: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was carried out with 116 older adults aged 80 years or older, registered in a primary health care unit in Belém, in the state of Pará, Brazil. The Function...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) and to correlate functional capacity with quality of life (QoL) of hospitalized octogenarians. Method: A cross-sectional study with 128 patients using the quality of life instruments WHOQOL-OLD and WHOQOL-BREF and t...
ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate possible differences in care complexity, functional performance and biopsychosocial and health system aspects among hospitalized elderly with or without cognitive decline. Method: quantitative, cross-sectional and analytical study in which was used the INTERMED method...
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate, in emergency hospital service and at home, the functional independence of elderly people who fell. Method: longitudinal study with 151 elderly. Functional Independence Measure (FIM) was used. Statistical tests were performed with univariate and bivariate analysis. Resu...
