[PDF] Top 20 The frailty syndrome in institutionalized elderly persons

... Objetivo: analisar a relação entre o nível de fragilidade e as características sociodemográficas e de saúde de idosos residentes em uma Instituição de Longa Permanência para Idosos (ILPI) do município de Ribeirão Preto, ... See full document

... analyze the relationship between the level of frailty and sociodemographic and health characteristics among elderly residents of a long-term care facility (LTCF) in Ribeirão Preto, São ... See full document

... and the possibility of cohort differences in ...study. In addition, each study had important non- response, and we found that people who did not respond, or who did not have information on social ... See full document

... METHODS: The participants were elderly patients admitted to clinical and surgical ...wards. The cardiovas- cular risk factors assessed were: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, systemic ... See full document

... and the prevalence of ex-smokers was 32%. The Fargeström Test was applied to the elderly smokers who were approved in the MMSE (n=30): 40% smoked their first cigarette of ... See full document

... of the elderly persons reported having experi- enced one or more falls in the last ...year. The number of falls experienced by the elderly is important due to ... See full document

... analyze the prevalence of falls and frailty syndrome and the association between these two syndromes in the elderly ...dates, in English, Portuguese and Spanish ... See full document

... Given the importance of MS as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and as differences in the different population groups surveyed make it difficult to compare results, there is a clear need for ... See full document

... community-dwelling elderly with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis (OA), focus- ing on the frailty ...of the elderly with knee and/or hip OA, using a subsample from the study of ... See full document

... change in gait and the occurrence of falls. It is likely that the reduced sample in this study was not able to reflect the situation of immobility and physical limitation of the ... See full document

... vary in their developmental trajectories across adulthood (e.g., the Seattle Longitudinal Study: Schaie and Willis, 2005; the Berlin Aging Study: Smith and Baltes, ...examined the effects of ... See full document

... if the participants were suficiently cognitive to participate in the research, the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE)17 was applied to the 153 elderly subjects in interview ... See full document

... through the question "Could you show me the medications you are currently using?" The elderly persons were asked to provide the packaging of the medicines and ... See full document

... Objective: The present study aims to evaluate the prevalence of and factors associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol among elderly people living in the northern part of ... See full document

... study in long-term institutions to investigate the prevalence of frailty and associated factors in institutionalized elderly and its association with sociodemographic variables ... See full document

... that the elderly using assistive technologies presented higher mean values in the frailty scale, especially the use of a cane that was associated with the syndrome ... See full document

... on the associations between the sociodemographic variables listed in Table 1 and frailty did not reveal any difer- ences between the levels of the syndrome (P > ... See full document

... to the feet (nail, dermatological and bone deformities). The ethical precepts that guide research involving human beings were respected, as set out in Resolution Mº 466/12 of the National ... See full document

... analyze the gait pattern of institutionalized and non-institutionalized aged people, and its influence on ...100 elderly persons, both genders, delivered on two groups, ... See full document

... The frailty syndrome is a geriatric medical condition of vulnerability resulting in the decline of physiological reserves, characterized by high-risk consequences as falls, disability, ... See full document