Facing the growing concern about the health and well-being in aging, the growth of the indigenous elderly population stirs up the development of researches that address this issue, since there is little information about the indigenous aging. Indigenous elders make up part of a culturally differentiated population, that demands health care adequate to the multiple ethnic background that is part of it. In front ...
This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study with focus on secondary data (Hospital Information System/DATASUS), which aimed to characterize the hospitalization profile of elderly from the Health Districts of Paraná, Brazil, from 2008 to 2011. Data were analyzed using percentages, according to age group, sex, year, cause of hospitalization, and Health District. Most admissions occurred in the ...
Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, transversal e retrospectivo com foco em dados secundários (Sistema de Informações Hospitalares/DATASUS), com o objetivo de caracterizar o perfil das internações hospitalares de idosos das Regionais de Saúde do Paraná, Brasil, nos anos de 2008 a 2011. Os dados foram analisados por meio de percentuais, segundo faixa etária, sexo, ano e causa de hospitalização e Regional de Saúde....
This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study with focus on secondary data (Hospital Information System/DATASUS), which aimed to characterize the hospitalization profile of elderly from the Health Districts of Paraná, Brazil, from 2008 to 2011. Data were analyzed using percentages, according to age group, sex, year, cause of hospitalization, and Health District. Most admissions occurred in the ...
OBJECTIVE: to describe the health professionals' perception in relation to the factors of the Kaingang culture which influence the undertaking of healthcare practices with the elders in this ethnic group. METHOD: descriptive research with a qualitative approach, grounded in the ethnographic method, undertaken with ten health professionals who work in the Indigenous Territory in Faxinal, in the Brazilian state o...
OBJECTIVE: to compare the overload of the main and secondary family carers of patients with Alzheimer's Disease, and identify which dimension generates most impact. METHOD: a comparative study conducted in the city of Maringá, State of Paraná, with 20 primary carers of elderly patients with Alzheimer's Disease and 20 secondary caregivers. The data was collected in May and June 2012, using the Scale for Assessme...
O objetivo do estudo foi identificar a qualidade de vida (QV) do cuidador e a do idoso com Doença de Alzheimer(DA). Estudo descritivo-exploratório realizado em Maringá, Paraná, junto a 50 idosos e seus respectivos cuidadores.Os dados foram coletados no período de novembro de 2010 a janeiro de 2011 com aplicação da Escala de Avaliaçãoda Qualidade de Vida na Doença de Alzheimer. A média dos escores totais para pa...