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The aim of this study was to verify the association between postural balance and quality of life of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. This is a cross-sectional study that evaluated elderly people with idiopathic Parkinson's disease through the Schwab & England, Hoenh & Yahr, Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating, MiniBESTest and Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire-39. Unlike other published papers that frequently use the BESTest, we use MiniBESTest that verified that elderly has balance compromised identified in the early stages of the disease, which directly influences the quality of life. Parkinson Disease; Postural Balance; Quality of Life

The aim of the study was to assess the nutricional status and describe the results of the tools of the Wide Geriatric Assessment applied in an elderly on hemodialysis, by the nephrology unit of the Distrito Federal. Mild to moderate cognitive degeneration, malnutrition and risk of sarcopenia were found in the patient, enough for the establishment of therapeutic measures with the multiprofessional approach. Keywords: Geriatric Assessment; Elderly; Renal dialysis.

After the finding of the Sars-Cov-2 virus and its high lethality, mainly in the older adults, the main of this study was to describe the specific actions to dam the transmission of this virus in a Long Term Care Home, through an action plan with changes in the flow of older adults, their family and collaborators. It was possible to conclude that all these measures could reduce and even dam the transmission of the virus among the older adults.

A systematic review on the assessment of Primary Health Care (PHC) in the care of the elderly population, using the “Primary Care Assessment Tool-PCATool” instrument. The studies met the inclusion criteria, the version used did not contemplate the specificities of the elderly. The evaluation of PHC in the health care of the elderly needs instruments that address the specificities of the elderly population to improve the assessment of their performance. 

The present study aims to indentify models of care and support direct to informal caregivers of the elderly and discuss the importance of these interventions in caregiver health. Was  verified that among the models of care and support applied to caregivers of the elderly, psychoeducational interventions were the pedominantones offering innumerable contributions as a better understanding about the aging process and the changes that accompany it, a better understanding about the disease that affects the elderly, acquisition of knowledge about care, increased use of strategies to cope with negative situation and stress redction among others. The nurse practitioner was the one who was in charge of this assistance in most of the studies, confirming his commitment to the elderly and his family.

This study aimed to quantify hospital morbidity and mortality due to femur fractures in the elderly from 2008 to 2018 in Brazil. Using secondary data from DATASUS (Department of Informatics of SUS). The results showed the evolution of the cases in the studied years, growing with increasing age, prevailing in females, white race, in winter and in the southeast region, increasing health expenses in the same proportion as their occurrence in Brazilian regions.Keywords: Elderly; Femur fracture; Death.

With a emphasis on intergenerational conflicts in the family, this qualitative, narrative review study aimed to describe its relationship with the mental health of the elderly, based on the solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms. This analysis highlights the importance of the emotional quality of relationships, the impact of conflicts on mental illness and suffering, and the challenges and strategies for facing them, by families and professionals in the field of Gerontology.Keywords: Intergenerational Relations; Mental Health; Elderly.

We sought to identify the scientific evidence on the mobility and accessibility of elderly people in urban social spaces. This is an Integrative Literature Review, with a search in the online Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System databases, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences and Bibliographic Index Español in Ciencias de la Salud. 379 articles were found, of which 13 were chosen for the sample, with 04 themes for discussion: mobility, accessibility, autonomy and independence. Studies have shown that the appropriation of elderly people to collective social environments improves their lifestyle and favors autonomy and independence.

Growing old is a process that occurs in the course of life, reveals several metamorphoses in your own history, in the body, in relations with the world and with the other. The old age its a phase of development, configures a unique experience of the human being in the face of change, one of them is the experience of loss. The purpose of this study is to understand the elderly when they have a love loss, by a critical reading about old age, death and mourning for the existential phenomenology of Jean-Paul Sartre.Keywords: Aging; Mourning; Existencialismo; Jean-Paul Sartre; Simone de Beauvoir.

No presente artigo buscamos avaliar quais os impactos das restrições ao lazer na saúde mental de idosos durante o isolamento social decorrente da pandemia de Covid-19. Para isso realizamos um levantamento nacional, em que contamos com uma amostra não probabilística por conveniência composta por 276 idosos brasileiros que responderam a um questionário online, e percebemos aumentos significativos em seus níveis de estresse, ansiedade e depressão durante o isolamento, do que inferimos uma relação direta e indireta às restriçõesao lazer.

This article proposes to identify the scientific production about the ICT scenario in the daily life of the elderly people in Brazil, which fits in the position of digital immigrant, from 2007 to 2017. This is a bibliographical study of the “state of the art”, with a quantitative approach. The results showed that, despite the small number of publications, there has been a growth of research on the subject in Brazil. Keywords: Aging; Elderly People; Information and Communication Technology.

This article seeks to investigate vulnerabilities related to the aging process of homosexual individuals through an integrative review of publications found in the Pubmed, Scopus and Web SciELO databases. Thus, there was a need for greater multidisciplinary care directed to the elderly under this sexual orientation and the importance of health professionals being able to address the issue of sexuality, so that there may be a more humanized care for this population. 

The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of sarcopenia or dinapenia, and the association between handgrip strength (PPF) with health status and inspiratory muscle strength in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The study's findings suggest that, in the presence of sarcopenia, FPP was related to health status and inspiratory muscle strength. In addition, in this same group, FPP influenced the outcome variables in elderly patients with COPD. Elderly; Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive; Sarcopenia.   

The study aims to analyze the quality of life and occupational roles of elderly participants in the Open University of Maturity at the Federal University of Paraná during their participation in the project. This is an exploratory, descriptive, longitudinal study with a quantitative approach with 60 elderly people aged 60 and over. Even as a result of the aging process, it is necessary to observe the consequences on the quality of life of the elderly and in relation to occupational roles.

The increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS among the older adults challenges researchers, managers, health professionals, and social movements to produce knowledge and health practices to mitigate the vulnerabilities in this population. We analyzed the scientific production of the Brazilian Congresses of Social Sciences and Humanities in Health, promoted by the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO), between 1995 and 2013, about the binomial HIV/AIDS and the older adults and the contribution of this subfield to Collective Health.

The objectives were to assess the frequency and severity of symptoms that impact the quality of life of the elderly in palliative cancer care. As a method, an observational retrospective cohort study. The results show that pain and fatigue were the most frequent symptoms in the elderly (100%), with lack of appetite being the most severe symptom in 45.4% of the elderly. It is concluded that the clinical manifestations of cancer and the side effects resulting from the treatment directly affect the quality of life of the elderly in palliative cancer care. 

We report here the experience of implementing a theater workshop for the 50+ audience that took place at SP Escola de Teatro in July 2018 and during the first semester of 2019. The project was driven by the results of the research “Bairro Amigo do Idoso - Brás e Mooca (São Paulo)” pointing out the lack of cultural activities for elderly people in the Brás neighborhood. The importance of an approximation between gerontology and the arts, and between research and university extension was highlighted.

The objective of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the King´s Parkinson´s Disease Pain Questionnaire into the Brazilian- Portuguese language carried out in five phases: (1) The original instrument was translated into Brazilian Portuguese; (2) to assess cultural, semantic and conceptual equivalence in relation to the original instrument; (3) it was back-translated from Brazilian Portuguese into English; (4) The original instrument and its versions were evaluated by a committee of specialists with a pre-test  with 30 patients; (5)  in order to test the validity of the scale in Brazil.

The challenges arising from the population aging process must be met with caution by the institutions charged with protecting the health of the aged citizen. The information contained in this work deals with the activities thought and developed by the Municipal Health Secretariat of Foz do Iguaçu/PR in an interinstitutional partnership with the 9th Regional Health Department of Paraná, in resonance with the Elderly Health care line. The guiding basis is the idealization of building and implementing an Integrated Health Care Network for the Elderly (RAISI) in Iguassu, aiming at a more comprehensive and humanized care.  

This study aims the understanding of the roles played by elderly parents and their children at Old Age. An integrated literature review was carried out using the American Psychological Association (APA), SciELO and Web of Science database, which resulted in a selection of 19 empirical studies. The results highlight the filial responsibility and Family relationships preservation at old ages. The results supported that the roles played by elderly parents and their grown up children are rather complex and interdependent.  Keywords: Adult children; Elderly parents; Intergenerational relations.