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Objectives: To verify the perception of old age by adolescents physical exercise practitioners or not. Method: n = 71, it was used the Inventory Sheppard, inferential descriptive statistics and content analysis. Results: Few things to be happy (p = 0.03, 83.3%); boring and uninteresting (p = 0.003, 85.1%); physical weakness (p = 0.004, 89.3%); loneliness (p = 0.003, 85.4%); health (p = 0.054, 82.2%) and positively (p = 0.009, 81%). Conclusion: the perception is negative, when positive; it is related to physical-exercise.  

With aging increases the likelihood of falling, and its occurrence considered as a serious public health problem. The aim of this study was to profile of elderly patients in a geriatric unit of the Federal District who have suffered falls. Methodology: A retrospective and qualitative study of care of the older chips that crashed in a geriatric unit of the Federal District. Data on the environment were raised where they reside, diseases, barriers and more. Results: The occurrence of this event is due to several factors: living alone, low education and low income, female, use of multiple medications, impaired vision and hearing, insecurity to walk and uneven sidewalks. Among the factors related to domestic environment should be highlighted as risk places the bathroom and the bedroom, in addition to floors with ceramics. Conclusion: The incidence of falls can be minimized by environmental adaptation of the elderly at home, preventive measures by the government to external and public areas, and training of professionals in health care about aging.  

This research was objective investigate the significance of the physical and sensorial limitations of the elderly to Physical Therapy students. Qualitative research carried out with 32 students with simulation procedures of elderly people’s sensorial and physical limitations were used, in an environment with obstacles.  Data were collected from non-structured interviews and analyzed by the hermeneutics-dialectical method. Nine significances were observed: the value of elderly people with positive attitudes, the agony of having limitations, awareness of the limitations and the need for more adequate physical therapeutic treatment,  the effects of the limitations  on the elderly people’s routine activities, perception of the existing prejudice in the society, not  being aware that they are aging, environmental obstacles for the elderly, overcoming routine difficulties and perception of their grandparents’ difficulties.  

This article aims at reconstructing from the perspective of the elderly, their impressions on the sociability and solidarity relations from childhood to old age. The data were collected from eighteen personal testimonies. The data reveal the occurrence of a series of changes in lives of the elderly and their families, influenced by socio-cultural events, new regulations of the State in relation to society and family and new ways of social protection.  

The senescence's process entails changes in the amount and quality of sleep, therefore most elderly have sleep-related complaints arising from specific physiological changes due to the aging process which can cause sleep-related disorders. Purpose: to identify the factors which affect the sleep of elderlies, students from the Maturity's University. Method: this is a descriptive survey of cross-sectional and quantitative's nature, the following instruments were used for data collecting: socio-economic survey questionnaire followed by the Epworth Sleepness Scale (ESS) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The ESS results revealed that 75% of the male group and 51.85% of the female group presented normal excessive daytime sleepness with <10 scores. Whilst the PSQI open answers related to the bed time revealed that 43.75% of men would lay at between 11 pm and 0 am, while 29.63% of women would lay at between 9 pm and 10 pm. In relation to the time to fall asleep, 68.75% of men and 62.96% of women took ≤ 15 minutes; in relation to the wake up time, 75% of men and 37.04% of women wake up at between 6 and 7 am; in relation to the sleep time, 50% of men slept between 7 and 8 hours a night and 51.85% of women slept ≥ 8 hours a night. Whilst the global PSQI revealed that 56.25% of men have a good sleep quality  and that 66.67% of women presented bad sleep quality, although they have a bigger efficiency related to the sleep. The results showed that men had a good sleep quality and women had a bad sleep quality.  

The aging ratio and religion has been currently more widespread in the scientific and academic literature; religion would be for humans, a parameter of organizational conduct, and interpretation of experience in different situations coping with the conditions of life, in any culture, and in all age groups, which would help in a positive way to experience the process of aging and old age. Demographic data show the dynamics of movement of people between the diverse religious groups in the country, among them the Seicho no Ie (SNI), which stands out precisely because to be much more than non-eastern Brazilian fans than descendants Japanese immigrants. This change of religion, but only fully will effect if performed in the symbolic. Symbolic transits otherness, for difference and metaphor, and produces a new direction. The religions are, first of all, as sources of symbolic capital, giving way to new experiences. The research methodology to which this work is linked will take into account both quantitative analysis and qualitative (semi-structured questionnaire). 15 subjects will be selected. The inclusion of subjects must meet the following criteria: aged 60 years, of both sexes, who migrated from one religion to the Seicho no Ie, and part of it for over a year. The analysis of quantitative data is obtained the sociodemographic profile of the fans. Qualitative data will be analyzed by following two phases: first, to identify the narratives categories that stand out; second, to make the descriptive interpretation based on the literature. The expected results will reveal, among other things, what is the main factor of migration of seniors to Seicho no Ie. Our hypothesis is that although to affiliate to Seicho No Ie, the elderly maintain Catholicism as a symbolic system. Seicho No Ie; Religion; Elderly.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the frailty in elderly residents in a nursing home of the Santos city and correlate aspects of this syndrome with depressive symptoms, cognitive domain, physical and functional performance in this sample. Twenty institutionalized elderly were evaluated, which are mostly classified as frail (n = 18; 90%) and were correlated with cognitive impairment (r = -0.470; P = 0.04), low physical (r = -0.437; P= 0.05), and functional performance (r = -0.529; P = 0.02) in the study population.  

This article is aimed at presenting a panorama of the application of the narrative perspective to the study of aging. First, the object of narrative gerontology is defined, which covers two interrelated levels: on one hand, narrative identity in old age and, on the other hand, cultural stories about aging. Second, the main methodologies used in narrative gerontology are described, differentiating between those interested on the content of stories (on what is told) and those interested in the process of elaboration of stories (on how it is told). Finally, we offer some reflections and challenges that narrative gerontology may confront in the future.  

This research aimed to assess the work published in the journal Kairos Gerontology, from 1998 to 2014, with the theme: elderly affected by cerebrovascular accident. It was intended to be a reflection of the importance of this thematic gerontogeriatria, contributing to the social integration of older persons, from a holistic look. At the end of this survey, we can affirm the importance of respect to reality of these elderly people in its context of life, as well as preventive measures in primary areas, with awareness of the population for the control of various vascular risk factors such as blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, triglycerides, heart disease, in addition to the need to refrain from smoking, having a healthy diet and physical exercise.  

Observational research with 22 old women (14 with stress urinary incontinence and 8 continent), in order to compare the functionality of elderly with and without urinary incontinence with Functional Movement Screen (FMS). There was no significant difference in functionality between the groups. Both scored low, which can be attributed to the aging process, due to the natural loss of strength, flexibility and balance.  

The study the type randomized clinical trial "blind", evaluated the influence of belly dance (DV) on depressive symptoms in community elderly. The old were divided into two groups: control and I-II-intervention; assessed before and after the intervention. We used a sociodemographic questionnaire, health assessment and Geriatric Scale abbreviated Yesavage Depression (GDS-15). As a result, the group II showed significant improvement (p=0.019) in the GDS-15 in relation to T0 (mean: 6.45, SD=3.26) and T1 (Average: 3.33, SD=1.5) not being observed in group I.

Within the theme of sexuality, homosexuality include old age, to be relevant in today theme, but still little explored in the literature, so we can not study the age and homosexuality separating the individual from society living or family is inserted, we must know the individual and the collective separately for so we can really understand and contribute to successful aging.  

Study by means of an integrated review of the literature on risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and nutritional status in aging, with the aim of characterizing the analogous research produced in the period 2007-2014 The bibliographic structured from the original articles , the electronic databases SciELO, Lilacs, PubMed, Medline, Cochrane, identified 17 scientific articles. The results show that assessment of nutritional status, followed by chronic non-communicable diseases and nutritional risk in the elderly, successful by assessing the risk of cardiovascular diseases were prevalent concern in the current issue of the aging population, which has increased the burden of chronic noncommunicable diseases communicable diseases and their risk factors.

Descriptive study of reflective analysis that aimed to analyze the current challenges of the Brazilian public health system in the face of chronic diseases in the elderly. It is evident that the current health care system has challenges in performance with the elderly with chronic diseases, including: the provision of care for the elderly from the performance on networks of health care services; Production of information and Epidemiological Surveillance in Conducting prevention and health promotion in multidisciplinary activities, including family care. This begs the development of remedial activities on the part of managers and professionals who meet those demands.  

The hip fracture (HF) is related to high rates of morbidity and a major impact on the functional capacity of the elderly. The aim of the study was to outline the functional profile of elderly patients hospitalized for HF analyzing kinds of fractures, the causal mechanism and the physical and functional prior to the event. This is an observational study, quantitative, cross-sectional whose participants were patients hospitalized for FPF. A registry file was used to collect sociodemographic data. The degree of functional independence and the ability to walk prior to the HF, respectively were evaluated by the Barthel Index, the Pfeffer questionnaire and the Functional Classification of the March Modified. The sample consisted of 32 elderly people with an average age of 79 (± 9.5) years and a predominance of females (71.8%), mulatto (43.8%) and low education. Most lived alone and did not use any medication. Participants elderly, prior to fracture, were independent for basic activities of daily living (ADL), dependent for instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and do not use for locomotion devices. Falls were the leading cause of HF, the most prevalent the femoral neck fracture (FNF) and the trochanteric fracture (TF). Comorbidities, medications, sociodemographic factors, gait impairment and functional dependency, they may be associated with occurrence of HF in the elderly.  

The efficacy of the psychosocial assessment and intervention on successful aging is based on programs that promote the optimized person-developmental contexts interaction. To achieve this goal, conceptual tools are needed to guide the assessment of community resources to facilitate aging in place evidence-based practices. The aim of this article was to discuss the global assumptions of the applied developmental science and how these assumptions may be applied in the assessment of community resources and strengths in order to foster adult development and successful aging.

This article aims: (i) to present work relations that emerged from the process of flexibility labour markets in the 90 and the distinction between the processes of  flexibility, deregulation and news precarious labor relations, understood by most authors as part of the neoliberal reforms of the last decades of the twentieth century. This distinction  is necessary because, in Brazil, labor relations are rigidly regulated since the promulgation of the Consolidation of Labor Laws in 1943 and have always been precarious; (ii) to present social security reforms undertaken by governments Fernando Henrique Cardoso and  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the new reform bill and its impact on the calculation of the value of retirement in the context of the changes of working conditions that made new labor relations.  

The present study proposed verify whether the exercises PNF influence on the variation in systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) and peak expiratory flow (PEF) in healthy elderly women.: We collected information present in the evaluation sheets of medical records related to anthropometry, blood pressure and peak expiratory flow of 15 elderly women who underwent exercise in upper and lower limb patterns in the diagonals of the PNF. The immediate effect was after exercise an increase in SBP and DBP and a decrease in PEF. The late effect of exercise in PEF, observed a significant increase. It is observed that an exercise program using PNF techniques is beneficial to the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, providing health psychosocial benefits; besides promoting wellness in here involved elderly, it causes a socialization of these old, making them part of the experiences of a group, reducing its isolation, certainly thereby contributes to a better quality of life for them.  

This study aims to analyze the factors associated with subjective memory complaints in the elderly. Cross-sectional study included 104 individuals. Information on sociodemographic characteristics, health status, lifestyle and assessment of subjective memory complaints (MAQ) were evaluated. There was a high prevalence of memory complaints (22.3%).  

This study had the purpose of examining the relationship between religious conversion and old age. With this research objective in view, six people older than sixty years of age, were interviewed and their religious conversion analyzed. Under this heading, the data showed the impact that religious beliefs can have on the lives of the elderly is a major field of research for the science of gerontology that can contribute to promoting a better quality of life for the elderly.