The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in countless losses around the world, profoundly affecting the lives of many people, especially those who faced the death of family members, bringing several negative repercussions to these families and constraining the experience of grief. This study aimed to understand the experience of loss and grief among bereaved individuals who lost family members during the COVID-19 pan...
Introduction: The majority of those infected with COVID‐19 undergo a brief duration of clinical illness. In certain instances,symptoms endure for months or years after the initial viral exposure—a condition characterized as Long COVID (LC). Theexperience of this illness remains largely unexplored as it has only recently surfaced. This study aims to understand therepercussions of persistent respiratory post‐COVI...
Background/Objectives: Evidence suggests that older adults who survived COVID-19 were exposed to greater functional dependence in their daily living activities. This study aims to examine the prevalence of functional dependence and associated factors among Brazilian older people with functional dependence 12 months after COVID-19 infection. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out involving people aged ...
Objective: to analyze the quality of care provided in primary health care to frail elderly individuals at risk of pressure injury. Methods: multiple case study. Sixteen elderly and their family caregivers and ten health professionals participated in the study. Results: among nonconformities were the non-realization of screening of the degree of frailty and multidimensional evaluation of the elderly; absence of ...
The increase of older population in Brazil is reflecting in socioeconomic changes which affect the way of society living. In addition to these changes, the country is going through a demographic and epidemiologic transition that contributes to alterations on health standards, and social and health assistance, that increase demands for hospitalization and medical care at the public health services by elderly are...
This descriptive-exploratory research aimed to investigate the elderly population assisted by one Family Health Team of an area of Maringá, a town located in the northwest of the state of Paraná. The results showed predominance of elderly women between 60 and 79 years old, but in the age group of 80 years of age or more, men predominated. Among the women, 81.8% have some kind of income; among the men, this numb...