Repositório RCAAP

The disabled population in Brazil has increased due to the increased life expectancy and urban violence by changing your profile and processing a new way of aging. In this perspective, this study aimed to discuss the importance of health legislation for people with disabilities from the perspective of elderly in order to generate knowledge and stimulate new scientific productions in area.   

According to WHO (2002), societies are aging, and it is possible to observe an unprecedented demographic transformation in the history of humanity. The success of social transformations in welcoming healthy aging is proportional to the precariousness of the mechanisms we have to deal with fragile and dependent old age. It is a fact that we added years of life to the general population, however, the inexorability of old age can only be avoided if there is a premature death. For many the last years of life are devastated by chronic illness, disability or dementia, and increased dependence. From the historical point of view of humanity, we are a succession of generations, increasingly old, supported by the illusion of renewal. The past was younger than the present and the future will be even older. This article intends to present a reflection about the social construction of individual aging, carried out during the research on the Promotion and Preservation of Dignity in the context of care in nursing homes, in the context of the PhD in Nursing of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. 

“Old Age is a way of feeling cold that assaults me/ and a certain acidity”: that’s the beginning of a poem of Adélia Prado, in which she deals with the thematic of aging, old age and the care that is necessary in this phase of life. In opposition to the initial impression that these stanzas transmit to us, the perspective of Adélia Prado on this entire poem and on the other poems that we’ll discuss in this article, is the concern for the elderly, for instrumental practices of care, and for the bio-political, humanitarian and democratic conditions that may optimize the elderly life in our society. Adélia Prado has an illusio about the inexorable of old age and we will discuss this illusio. We will also discuss dispositions towards care that are evoked in her poems. These care practices may alleviate the “natural” physical, psychosocial deconstructions that old age might bring to all of us. In this work we deal with conceptual elements from Simone de Beauvoir, Leonardo Boff, Pierre Bourdieu and others. 

This study evaluated depressive and anxiety symptoms in elderly and its association with sex, age, functional capacity and the perception of social support. Participated 134 elderly people without cognitive impairment. There was a significant association between depression and anxiety with dependence in basic and instrumental activities of daily living and anxiety with low social involvement and low perception of social support. Public attention is importantto foster diagnosis and treatment of these clinical conditions. 

This article discusses social and demographic aspects related to population’s ageing and the increasing of life expectancy, in particular the population aged 80 and older, which is the fastest growing, as well as their weaknesses, which lead to dependency. The dependence in the elderly is recognized as a social risk, requiring long-term care, an issue that for over three decades has been discussed in developed countries due to the high costs of social protection strategies in this social segment. 

Aging is a challenge that in recent years has been the object of study in modern society. We all try to understand and understand aging and intervene to reduce its natural effects by avoiding the exclusion of the elderly and, instead, by promoting their integration into society. One issue that arises in Portugal and in more modern societies is the great development of information technologies. These processes led to greater dependence in Portugal on everyday matters such as access to banking services, finances, appointment of appointments, collection of medicine in pharmacies and even purchases. In this article, we highlight the issue of info-exclusion and infointervention among the elderly and present some results of the use of information technologies by the elderly in Portugal. 

The study the type randomized clinical trial that verified the association of muscle strength with the risk of falls of elderly residents in long-term care facilities for the institutionalized elderly. The elderly were divided into control group (G1) and group intervention (G2) and evaluated  in the baseline and post intervention. By means of Timed Up and Go Test (TUGT), strength check of the hold Manual (FPM) and the Lift Chair Test (LC) it was observed the proposed exercise program contributed to the maintenance or improvement of muscle strength of elderly, contributing to na improvement in the risk of falls. 

The paper presents theoretical considerations about the experience and coping of aging, as a process and representation, associated with illness and the need for family and / or specialized care. In this context, the articulations between elderly people, current aging models, cancer sickness and a reflection on the care sought for this growing portion of the population are built. 

This study aims to investigate how religious beliefs, spiritual and elderly faith can help address challenges arising from chronic wounds. It is a study of observational descriptive, cross-sectional design and qualitative and quantitative approach. The results showed that elderly people with chronic wounds, and turn to medical help, avail themselves of their religiosity and faith in search of healing and improving their quality of life. 

This research seeks to analyze and rediscuss, from the perspective of human rights, the promotion and protection of the citizenship of the elderly. From the new social scene of a society that is aging, the text aims to foster reflection on the current conjuncture of old age, verifying, through a theoretical revision, the possibilities of exercising citizenship through the rights and guarantees which are consistent with human rights.

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Syndrome (PSP) is a rare and difficult diagnosis of the central nervous system (CNS) neurodegenerative disease that mainly affects the brainstem and nuclei of the base. The clinical picture is characterized by supranuclear ophthalmoparesis, postural instability and dementia. Objective: to investigate the pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment and assistance of the multidisciplinary team to PSP users. Integrative review of 15 articles published in the database of the Virtual Health Library, VHL, involving case studies and field research. Results: the study revealed little publication about the disease and, because it is rare, there is no efficient and effective drug; The diagnosis is limited in the first manifestations, and it is only possible by means of mechanistic examinations. Because there is little material on the assistance to these cases, it is suggested that the Neurology Councils and Associations and other specificities involved in the treatment develop and disseminate more details about the disease, in order to create a protocol for comprehensive care Affected by this syndrome, as well as the necessary support for family members and caregivers, to assist in outpatient and family care practices 

The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with the functional profile of elderly patients with Parkinson's disease, in order tocorrelate them with the severity of the disease and the time of diagnosis in three age groups. We interviewed 145 elderly people, aged 60 years or older, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Staging revealed a statistically significant difference between the G1 (60-69 years) and G3 (80-89) groups. PD is increasingly affecting the population, and factors such as low schooling and widowhood were related to functional deficits, leading to the issue of physical frailty and potential factors for falls. The G3 group (80-89 years) was the most functionally affected and the time of diagnosis was not related to age. 

The purpose of this article was to present a narrative review of the literature on the relation between the urban environment and social relationships in old age. Six articles from Urban Studies Abstracts database were used. The studies’ analysis showed that the neighborhood’s environmental conditions can influence the social relations of its elderly residents, intensifying the isolation of the subjects when it lacks of resources, and promoting socialization when it offers opportunities for walking and social exchange. 

The purpose of this study is to identify aspects of personality that predominate in a population sample of elderly individuals. Fifty people aged between 60 and 85 years old with no psychiatric history were evaluated. In comparison with the international normative sample of adults, it was possible to verify a more simplistic and distorted vision of reality, however with no thought disturbance, and some cognitive difficulty, as well as a greater need of stimulation as a result of the environment demands.  

This study aims to investigate the community service network for the elderly in Florianópolis (SC), through the strategy of Community Centers for the Elderly (CCEs), presented their process of creation and history and socio-cultural development, including also the increase in the number of groups and elderly participants. We conducted a literature search, descriptive and exploratory and survey with qualitative and quantitative approaches to data. They were applied semi-structured interviews with four social workers who participate in the implementation process of CCEs strategy in the city. the formal establishment was found these groups, bound and driven mainly by government agencies of the social assistance area, and, over the years, the number of CCEs and participants increased significantly in Florianópolis (SC). 

This paper presents two data sources: the systematic monitoring by the researchers of the meetings of a group of older gay men in the city of Porto Alegre and the occasional insertions in a sauna / video store that promotes the approach among older gay men and other partners over the years 2009 to 2012. With this data, we discuss some issues in connection aging and eroticism. For aging erotica, we understand a set of strategies adopted by older gay men in order to keep open possibilities for love and sex life. 

Is an integrative review about labor rights of caregivers of the elderly. Articles published in databases were selected:PePSIC; Lilacs; Medline; BDJur; Digital Library of Unicamp; Unified Jurisprudence of the Federal Justice Council; LATINDEX; LexML; NDLTD; OCLC-OAIster, founding 6 studies. It is suggested that more attention with their labor rights, in order to make effective care for both caregivers and caregivers. 

The objective of this study was to analyze the Primary Health Care services regarding the supply and organization of actions to aging and health of the elderly, a Regional Health Care Network of the center-west of São Paulo. We used indicators from the Quality Assessment Questionnaire for Basic Attention Services (QualiAB) in the year 2014. The results suggest that these services develop actions of attention to aging in an incipient way and limited to chronic diseases.  

The article intends to report the changes in the feeding of elderly throughout his life. The cross-sectional, descriptive and qualitative study was carried out with all the elderly of a conviviality group, located in the northwestern region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. With this research we found that the feeding undergoes changes in each cycle of life, where there are several factors that affect it, causing it to build memories of past habits. 

The aging process causes the individual physiologic-functional changes, with increased demand for care, due to limitations and loss of functional capacity. There is an increase in chronic-degenerative diseases, such as dementias, characterized by syndromes of diverse etiologies, whose fundamental aspect is memory impairment, and of at least one other cognitive function (language, praxia, gnosis or executive functions), compromising the occupational or social functioning, representing functional decline. The greater the dependence of an individual, the greater the burden on the caregiver; hence, it is important to consider the overload as an aspect worthy of detailed investigation to guide an intervention that assists in the caring process. This study aims to verify if there is an association between the level of overload and the socio-demographic, clinical and psycho-cognitive variables of caregivers and elderly patients with Demential Syndrome. This is an analytical, cross-sectional study with convenience sample, with 20 elderly caregivers with DS. It was concluded that the highest levels of overload are in caregivers of elderly with DS and pulmonary disease, not married life, female, associated with irritability and degree of kinship with demented; the children, with the highest levels. Reduced overload in caregivers who practiced physical activity and without a history of falls.