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Relationship between anemia, hemoglobin concentration and nutritional status of...

Background and Objectives: Malnutrition is frequent in hospitalized older adults, favoring nutritional deficiencies, such as anemia. Several studies have associated anemia with reduced performance in daily activities, which may increase morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to assess the relation between anemia and older adults’ nutritional status. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with hospitalized ...

Research PROCAD - aging and longevity patterns: biological, educational and psy...

 Cognitive and functional impairment, among others, are factors that contribute to the institutionalization of the elderly. The objective was to compare samples of elderly aged 60 years and over, resident in long-term care institutions, regarding gender, age, income, physical health conditions, frailty, depressive symptoms, cognition and to identify relationships between these variables. Cross-sectional study w...

Nursing interventions for maintenance/recovery of the functional capacity of th...

Objetivou-se realizar uma revisão sistemática buscando, nas evidências científicas, intervenções que possam ser desenvolvidas pela enfermagem, com vistas à manutenção/recuperação da capacidade funcional de uma pessoa idosa hospitalizada, disponíveis no PUBMED, CINAHL, SCOPUS e WOS, sem delimitação temporal. As intervenções encontradas estão relacionadas ao estado geral de saúde, cognição e humor, desempenho fun...

Risk of sarcopenia and health conditions in institutionalized elderly with oste...

Introduction: Osteoporosis is an insidious metabolic disease, characterized by bone fragility, where there is greater absorption in relation to bone synthesis. Due to its numerous complications, such as the increased risk of falls, fractures, hospitalizations, very elderly need specific care often not provided by the family or people close. Thus, many debilitated elderlies are referred to long-term institutions...

Percepção de saúde e intensidade da dor de cuidadores de idosos com Alzheimer a...

Introdução: Na velhice há maior prevalência das doenças crônicas, entre elas as demências, que exigem altos níveis de cuidados. Sendo assim, o cuidador merece atenção tanto/quanto o próprio idoso. Objetivo: Analisar a percepção de saúde e intensidade da dor de cuidadores de idosos com Doença de Alzheimer (DA) associado ao tempo de cuidado. Materiais e Métodos: Estudo quantitativo, transversal e descritivo, esta...

Association between number of falls and muscular strength of elderly residents ...

The study the type randomized clinical trial that verified the association of muscle strength with the risk of falls of elderly residents in long-term care facilities for the institutionalized elderly. The elderly were divided into control group (G1) and group intervention (G2) and evaluated  in the baseline and post intervention. By means of Timed Up and Go Test (TUGT), strength check of the hold Manual (FPM) ...

Prevalence of household falls in long-lived adults and association with extrins...

Prevalência de quedas no domicílio de longevos e fatores extrínsecos associados

Objetivo: identificar la prevalencia de caída entre ancianos longevos y los factores extrínsecos a ella asociados. Método: estudio transversal de base poblacional, con 350 ancianos longevos. Se realizó encuesta domiciliar, utilizando un cuestionario con variables sociodemográficas, clínicas y relacionadas al ambiente. Los datos fueron analizados por medio del Software Stata V.10. Fueron empleadas las pruebas ch...

Active aging in conception of a group of nurses

This study aimed to identify the concepts that a group of nurses is about active aging. This is an exploratory and descriptive research with qualitative approach, performed with nurses who work in Basic Health Units in a city in the north part of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Using the focus group technique was verified that nurses understand that active aging is related and is built in a dependency understanding ...

Aesthetic and social expectations: the positioning of the elderly woman on aest...

The aging process is a natural condition to life, and it is marked by changes that run in the body as a result from the physiology of aging; these changes may also derive from a construction ruled by social standards. The study aimed to learn the positioning of the elderly woman on the use of esthetic resources in response to social expectations. The methodology used was the descriptive exploratory qualitative ...