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Functioning of older people patients hospitalized in the medical clinic
Souza, Daniela Gabriel Rovigatti de; Doná, Flávia; Dias, Vanessa da Nóbrega; Maia, Denise Alves dos Reis; Lemos, Naira de Fátima DutraTo analyze the functional status of elderly hospitalized patients at General Hospital of the State Public Service of São Paulo. This cross-sectional study, included 100 admissions of patients aged 60 years and older, were evaluated within 24 hours of admission. The following variables were assessed: sociodemographic and clinical-functional. The older people with advancing age and clinic and functional decline ...
Postural Balance of elderly patients hospitalized in the medical clinic
Souza, Daniela Gabriel Rovigatti de; Dias, Vanessa da Nóbrega; Maia, Denise Alves dos Reis; Branco-Barreiro, Fátima Cristina AlvesInvestigated the association between postural balance (PB) and sociodemographic and clinical-functional variables of elderly patients at the admission in the Medical Clinic infirmary. Elderly people with higher age, level of more compromised cognition, worse nutritional status, worse grip strength, more diagnostic hypotheses, presence of eye and attachments diseases, deficit auditory and/or visual, falls in the...