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Challenges in public perception: highlights from the United Kingdom-Brazil Deme...
Pelegrini,Lucas Nogueira de Carvalho; Hall,Abigail; Hooper,Emma; Oliveira,Déborah; Guerra,Flora; Casemiro,Francine Golghetto; Bonfadini,JanineABSTRACT. In July 2019, Belo Horizonte hosted an international workshop for 27 junior researchers, whose participants were from Brazil and the United Kingdom. This three-day meeting organized by the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and the University of East Anglia addressed challenges in cognitive impairment and dementia, with particular interest in public perceptions, diagnosis and care management. The pu...
Social and health-related predictors of family function in older spousal caregi...
Pavarini,Sofia Cristina Iost; Bregola,Allan Gustavo; Luchesi,Bruna Moretti; Oliveira,Déborah; Orlandi,Fabiana de Souza; Moura,Fernanda Gomez deABSTRACT. Given the benefits of adequate family function for the health and well-being of older adults, it is important to understand what factors predict adequate family function in older people who care for their spouses. Objective: Analyse predictors of family function in older spousal caregivers. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used to investigate a non-probabilistic sample of 298 older spousal ...
Estimates of infection and mortality from COVID-19 in care homes for older peop...
Wachholz,Patrick Alexander; Moreira,Virgilio Garcia; Oliveira,Déborah; Watanabe,Helena Akemi Wada; Boas,Paulo José Fortes Villas<p><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> To describe infection and mortality rates associated with COVID-19 in older people living in Brazilian care homes.<br> <b>METHODS:</b> A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using primary and secondary data sources. Nationwide care home administrators were invited to report, via an online questionnaire, the occurrence of infection and mortality associated with COVID-19 from April...
Academic terminologies and stigma in later life
Oliveira,Déborah<p>It is common to find stigmatising terms being used to describe older people with dementia and / or living in care homes in the Brazilian literature, such as ‘demented person’, ‘patient in asylum’, or ‘institutionalised elderly’. Historically, both mental illnesses and long-term care settings for older people have had negative connotations in society. The use of terms that historically refer to social segrega...