Browsing by Subject "Frail elderly"
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Concordância de observações sobre a capacidade funcional de idosos em assistência domiciliar
(Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, 2005-08-01)OBJECTIVE: To assess the agreement between measures of caregiver's perception and health provider's direct observation of performance in daily living activities among home care elderly patients. METHODS: Performance ...
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Declínio funcional de idosa institucionalizada: aplicabilidade do modelo da Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde
(Universidade de São Paulo, 2009-06-01)The purpose of this study was to analyse the clinical functional evolution of an elderly institutionalized woman, focussing on the way socioeconomic context and family-related conditions influenced her health, as well as ...
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Exercício resistido em idosos frágeis: uma revisão da literatura
(Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, 2012-06-01)INTRODUCTION: Fragility syndrome, very common in elderly people, consists of a set of signals and symptoms in which is present criteria such as not intentional weight loss (approximately 5%) in a year, reduction in the ...
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A modalidade de assistência Centro-Dia Geriátrico: efeitos funcionais em seis meses de acompanhamento multiprofissional
(ABRASCO - Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva, 2007-04-01)The objective is to describe the functional capacity of elderly patients who took part in a six-month follow-up program at a geriatric day care center. The methods used were a six-month observation clinical study. The ...
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Qualidade de vida de idosos atendidos em programa de assistência domiciliária
(Universidade do Estado do Rio Janeiro, 2011-06-01)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of life of elderly patients in home care. METHOD: Analytical cross-sectional study. Elderly patients of a home care program were assessed regarding socio-demographic, clinical, functional ...
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Two-year follow-up study of elderly residents in S. Paulo, Brazil: methodology and preliminary results
(Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, 1998-10-01)INTRODUCTION: Previous cross-sectional studies have shown a high prevalence of chronic disease and disability among the elderly. Given Brazil s rapid aging process and the obvious consequences of the growing number of old ...