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Falls and Preventive Practices among Institutionalized Older People

The present study about falls among the older adult population essentially explores biophysiological factors. In light of the complexity of the factors that cause these accidents, it is important to identify the safety and self-care practices of institutionalized older adults and their relationship with falls in order to introduce prevention measures and personalized cognitive–behavioral strategies. The objecti...

Gait ability and muscle strength in institutionalized older persons with and wi...

Falls are a complex problem, given their multifactorial nature, the comorbidities involved, and due to the dependency of older persons living in nursing homes. Risk, fear of falling, falls themselves, and their recurrence are the main factors behind fragility fractures, lack of independence, and increases in pain prevalence, and other comorbidities in older populations. The objectives of the present quantitativ...

Transitional Care Management from Emergency Services to Communities :

In recent years, nurses have developed projects in the area of hospital to community transition. The objective of the present study was to analyze the transitional care offered to elderly people after they used emergency services and were discharged to return to the community. The action research method was chosen. The participants were nurses, elderly people 70 years old or older, and their caregivers. The stu...

How deep is your consciousness: estudo sobre experiências catárticas do público...

Partindo de uma performance que concebi e realizei em 2019, intitulada Promoção, a qual apresentava um dispositivo extremamente simples no qual o público era convocado a participar e, consequentemente, a contribuir para uma narrativa, o estudo que se segue debruça-se sobre a temática da catarse ocorrida no âmbito performativo e, em particular, nos casos em que os espectadores são convocados a co-criar juntament...

Transitional Care Management from Emergency Services to Communities: An Action ...

In recent years, nurses have developed projects in the area of hospital to community transition. The objective of the present study was to analyze the transitional care offered to elderly people after they used emergency services and were discharged to return to the community. The action research method was chosen. The participants were nurses, elderly people 70 years old or older, and their caregivers. The stu...

Gait Ability and Muscle Strength in Institutionalized Older Persons with and wi...

Falls are a complex problem, given their multifactorial nature, the comorbidities involved, and due to the dependency of older persons living in nursing homes. Risk, fear of falling, falls themselves, and their recurrence are the main factors behind fragility fractures, lack of independence, and increases in pain prevalence, and other comorbidities in older populations. The objectives of the present quantitativ...

Interobserver analysis of safety practices and behaviors adopted by elderly peo...

Análise Interobservadores das práticas e comportamentos de segurança adotados p...

Objective: determine the psychometric properties of the safety practices and behaviors dimension of the Scale of Practices and Behaviors of Institutionalized Elderly People to Prevent Falls in a sample of elderly people with cognitive decline. Method: methodological study, with a quantitative approach, to assess the psychometric properties of the mentioned scale in a sample with 102 elderly people with cognitiv...

Análise Interobservadores das práticas e comportamentos de segurança adotados p...

Objetivo: determinar as propriedades psicométricas da dimensão das práticas e dos comportamentos de segurança da Escala de Práticas e Comportamentos dos Idosos Institucionalizados para Prevenir Quedas numa amostra de idosos com declínio cognitivo

Falls in institutionalized elderly with and without cognitive decline A study o...

Falls in long-stay institutions for elderly people have a high prevalence, contributing to the physical and mental deterioration of institutionalized elderly.