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Loneliness and depressive symptomatology in elderly people
Faísca, Letícia Raquel; Afonso, Rosa Marina; Pereira, Henrique; Vaz Patto, Maria AssunçãoLoneliness and depression are related to the psychological well-being in old age. However, this relationship is not clear because of the complexity of these dimensions, namely the solitude. The objective of this study is to examine these two dimensions and discuss the relationship in elderly people. This study included 213 people aged 65 and 96 years old, and the average age was 75 years old (DP=6.74). Data wer...
Primary progressive non-fluente aphasia.
Maia, Luis; Vaz Patto, Maria Assunção; Correia, Carina; Perea-Bartolomé, Maria VictoriaWhen a subject shows changes in his/her ability to express himself/herself verbally or to understand the messages from the people he/she relates with, it is customary to say that such a person has a language disorder, nosologically classified in the field of aphasias. In this article, we show the case of a patient diagnosed with progressive aphasia, where such a diagnosis describes the data resulting from the n...