Background: Home-based palliative care (HBPC) plays a crucial role in preserving the dignity of patients with terminal illness and their families. However, the factors influencing this experience from the perspective of patients, family caregivers, and healthcare professionals remain insufficiently explored. Aim: This study aimed to map and analyze the role of HBPC on patient dignity, considering the perspectiv...
Introduction: Home-based palliative care plays a vital role in preserving the dignity of terminally ill patients and their families. However, the factors influencing this experience from the perspective of patients, family caregivers, and healthcare professionals are not fully understood. Aim: To map existing evidence on the effects of home-based palliative care on patient dignity, considering the perspectives ...
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The growth of the elderly population in Brazil allows us to make several reflections, one of them is about the relationship between health and spirituality / religiosity, mainly because we are heirs of cultural history that was inherited by Portuguese and European colonists. This study aims to verify the religious affiliation of octogenarians from the samples were for convenience and in a simple random way from...
The aim was to investigate associations between the cognitive decline of very old adults in outpatient settings and sociodemographic variables, functional performance, chronic diseases, number of hospitalizations and access to health services. Very old adults (80 years and over) residing in the Federal District were interviewed, evaluated in an outpatient setting by means of standardized questionnaires and the ...
This study aims to investigate how religious beliefs, spiritual and elderly faith can help address challenges arising from chronic wounds. It is a study of observational descriptive, cross-sectional design and qualitative and quantitative approach. The results showed that elderly people with chronic wounds, and turn to medical help, avail themselves of their religiosity and faith in search of healing and improv...
This study had the purpose of examining the relationship between religious conversion and old age. With this research objective in view, six people older than sixty years of age, were interviewed and their religious conversion analyzed. Under this heading, the data showed the impact that religious beliefs can have on the lives of the elderly is a major field of research for the science of gerontology that can c...
This article discusses the foremost concern of the elderly parents of persons with Down Syndrome who are also aging and will not have where or whom be in case of their parents die earlier. The family is the basis of all persons with Down syndrome, and it is at your side every day. However often there is no one else besides the parents, whether relatives or institutions that are able to welcome these people with...
Objetives: Investigate the scientific production developed under the Post Graduated Stricto Sensu Program in Gerontology (PPGG) at the Catholic University of Brasilia (UCB), taking into account teachers and students, since the program’s creation (2003) until 2014. Methods: Documentary, with consultation to the archives of the Academic Secretary of the Post-Graduation at UCB, taking the data reported to the annu...
The aim of this study was to identify the lines and research topics of dissertations in the first decade of the stricto sensu in Gerontology program at Catholic University of Brasília, as well as the undergraduate course of its students and their mentors. It was concluded that interdisciplinarity, relevant and desirable feature in Gerontology, was valued in this program, since the large number of master's gradu...