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Deprescribing in Older Adults: Attitudes, Awareness, Training, and Clinical Pra...

Introduction: The importance of deprescribing in clinical practice is growing, particularly in aging populations with polypharmacy scenarios, making it a crucial matter in Portugal, one of Europe’s most aged nations. The aim of this study was to investigate deprescribing awareness, training, attitudes, and practices among Portuguese physicians to inform future healthcare strategies.Methods: A cross-sectional st...

Malnutrition Screening in Primary Health Care

In the community, malnutrition is manifested by the loss of muscle mass, being associated with a decrease in muscle strength, an increased risk of frailty, functional impairment and impaired healing of chronic wounds, as well as a higher incidence of infections. It is estimated that malnutrition affects one in three elderly people at home and one in three patients in elderly care institutions. Malnutrition is r...

Cancer Network for Welfare Aging (NEWAYS): Strategies for Optimizing the Care o...

The project NEWAYS − Cancer Network for Welfare Aging aimed to raise national awareness for Geriatric Oncology issue in Portugal. To do so, it set to define strategic courses of action in four preponderant areas in the care of elderly with cancer, in order to foster its optimization and promote the development of Geriatric Oncology policies in Portugal: clinic, economics and health policy, epidemiologic and soc...

When long-term care comes to an end: informal caregivers’ perspectives on patie...

Background: The purpose of long-term integrated care units is the readaptation and reintegration into family and social life. Objective: To understand informal caregivers’ perspectives on the discharge of their relatives with dementia from long-term care facilities. Methodology: Fifteen caregivers (mean age of 60 years) were interviewed, and data were qualitatively analyzed using NVivo. Results: Despite the con...

High intensity interval training improves health-related quality of life in adu...

Effects of physical exercise and protein supplementation in quality of life (SF...

Bridging Health and Social Care with the Citizens – The Case of EIT Health Proj...

The global burden of population ageing imposes the need of innovative care models and good practices to ensure the sustainability of health and social care support, as well as optimal quality of life of the citizens. Science and technology-based innovation is required to be cross-fertilized with co-creation strategies, involving different stakeholders and the citizens. Health literacy is a crucial component of ...

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The perception of the retirement transitions on the Reativa participants perspe...

Retirement is a life cycle transition that exposes its protagonists to different states of biological, psychological, social and ecological vulnerability. The project REATIV aims to promote an active ageing and in a first phase of its development had as the overall objective to know the perceptions that individuals have regarding retirement, and found that they perceive it as a continuum, readaptation, gain, lo...

A perceção da transição para a aposentadoria na perspetiva dos participantes do...

A aposentadoria constitui um a transição do ciclo de vida que expõe os seus protagonistas a estados de diferente vulnerabilidade biológica, psicológica, social e ecológica. O projeto REATIVA visa a promover um envelhecimento ativo e, numa primeira fase do seu desenvolvimento que teve por objetivo geral conhecer as perceções que os indivíduos apresentam relativamente à aposentadoria, descobriu que estes a percec...