The article aims to describe the profile of elderly victims of falls and traffic accidents from the data of the Surveillance Survey of Violence and Accidents (VIVA). The VIVA Survey was conducted in the emergency health-services of the Unified Health System in the capitals of Brazil in 2011. The sample of elderly by type of accident was subjected to the two-step cluster procedure. Of the 2463 elderly persons in...
O envelhecimento populacional e o aumento das doenças crônico-degenerativas sinalizam para a necessidade de discutir como proceder a abordagem clínica atual, em que a conduta é definida pelos achados orgânicos em doenças associadas. A avaliação da Medicina moderna deve considerar como modelo a Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidades e Saúde associada à Classificação Internacional de Doenças...
BACKGROUND: The Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) is widely used for the assessment of episodic memory. However, there are few studies in Brazil assessing its psychometric properties. OBJECTIVES: To search for evidence of reliability and construct validity of the RAVLT, and to assess the influence of age, schooling, gender, and depressive symptoms on test performance. METHODS: One hundred twenty-six hea...