[PDF] Top 20 Rev. bras. geriatr. gerontol. vol.16 número4

... Este número da RBGG (v. 16, n. 4) não é um número temático. Ou, pelo menos, não foi intenção da editoria realizar um número temático. No entanto, ao final do processo de seleção dos artigos veio uma constatação: a ... See full document

... The present study will be beneficial to nursing and other health-related professions, given that an understanding of what healthy aging means to the elderly individuals that participa[r] ... See full document

... The other six interviewees stated that they had not suffered direct prejudice, although many of them recognized that it is commonly associated with the disease and attributed this dis[r] ... See full document

... In table 3, it can be seen that the prevalence of intestinal constipation was 42.5%, being most frequent among women (89.2%) , aged 80 or more (67.6%), who did not perform any kind o[r] ... See full document

... Knowledge about the living conditions of the elderly persons studied, participants in a vaccination campaign, enables health care teams and managers to develop subsidies for the imple[r] ... See full document

... An analytical cross-sectional study was performed of a probabilistic complex two stage cluster sample of elderly persons (aged 65-74 years), living in a Brazilian town (Montes Claros), with a large population, situated ... See full document

... The present study is based on the conceptual model defined by Fried which explains phenotypic frailty through the presence of the following criteria: weight loss; exhaustion; low physi[r] ... See full document

... The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire containing demographic questions (gender: male, female; age: completed years; skin color: white, non-white; marital status: with a partner, unmarried; ... See full document

... populations and so create effective intervention targets according to their needs, and being aware of the specificities resulting from environmental, cultural and subjective factors, [r] ... See full document

... Measurement of adoption cost 0.. By individually examiningthe studies, as shown in Table 7, it was found that 11 articles attended to more than 50% of the reachcategories, while only[r] ... See full document

... The 2MST exhibited satisfactory sensitivity and moderate specificity in the assessments of hypertensive elderly individuals, particularly those with associated chronic conditions, a s[r] ... See full document

... Precisamos urgentemente iniciar a transição do modelo assistencial para um novo, onde a escuta da pessoa prevalece sobre a quantidade de consultas realizadas, onde a identificação das [r] ... See full document

... We urgently need to begin the transition to a new model where listening prevails over the number of consultations and where the identification of health needs is as important as the di[r] ... See full document

... The survey adopted a qualitative approach and applied a semi-structured script, whose theme contemplated the following aspects: socioeconomic data; the main reasons that led the elder[r] ... See full document

... Given this background, the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the behavior of the percentage (%) of FR in autonomous EP, considering the difference between maximum gait (MG)[r] ... See full document

... Ambas modalidades fueron desarrolladas en un circuito elíptico de 70 metros durante tres minutos, registrándose la distancia recorrida y frecuencia cardiaca de trabajo, para el corresp[r] ... See full document

... The study excluded individuals who had trouble answering the questionnaire, as observed by the interviewer. Drug use was considered to be validated in situations where the original bo[r] ... See full document

... It was also observed that the CRF level of the active group during reassessment (480.8 m) was similar to that found in the inactive group during the first assessment (484.9 m), indic[r] ... See full document

... The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of the occurrence of falls and associated factors among the elderly, investigating as yet unexplored variables in a population-based [r] ... See full document

... Therefore the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of low quality of life and analyze the morbidities associated with this condition among elderly individuals enrolled in t[r] ... See full document