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This article explains a cross-sectional study with 50 elderly people. The work focused on a group of elderly people, in their homes, in a city in the interior of Amazonas, regarding cognitive and physical-functional aspects. The group is characterized by the majority being female, with less than five years of schooling, with severe cognitive impairment and with an alarming decline in physical-functional function.

The objective of this study was to verify and analyze the experiences and perceptions of elderly with type 2 diabetes. Thirty-five diabetic elderly were selected from the Endocrinology Ambulatory and Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo. Through the thematic analysis of the semi-structured interviews content, it was found that the elderly feel the need for family support and have a negative future perspective. 

This study aimed to evaluate primary health care from the perspective of the elderly, understanding the conceptions about the attributes of primary health care. Descriptive study with qualitative approach, conducted in Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. It was concluded that the perception of the elderly about primary health care is unsatisfactory regarding the performance of examinations, delivery of results, medication dispensation, physical structure and access to medical appointments. 

Walking Speed Decreasing (WSD) is an important data in the functional performance of the elderly and is a clinical condition found in frailty and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2). The objective is to determine the sociodemographic and clinical-functional factors related to WSD in pre-frail and frail diabetic elderly. Age group, falls in the last year and risk of falls are the variables that are most closely related. Furthermore, age, polypharmacy and the risk of falls obtained a greater difference between the groups. 

This article addresses the mourning for abandonment and reproduction of old age, based on Theory of Attachment and on Psychology of Grief. It consists of a descriptive study, of the type of experience report, result of the performance in the extension project carried out in the Institution of Long Stay for the Elderly of Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. Discuss a characterization of the EntreLAÇOS project and the profile of the public served; mourning related to aging, abandonment and institutionalization; as well as reproduce in mourning with institutionalized elderly. Evidence of differences in ignition and abandonment according to their specificities, although there are similarities in the emotional changes between these changes. 

This is an integrated review of the literature on the effects of music interventions in dementia. The results suggest an overall positive impact of music interventions in people with dementia and their families and caregivers, particularly in the dimensions: cognition, behavior, mood, emotions, quality of life, well-being, pain, biomedical parameters and caregiver burden. However, the lack of methodologically consistent investigations is highlighted.

The objective of the study was to verify the style and quality of life and its associations with the burden of informal caregivers of elderly people in post-fall functional dependence. It was a descriptive and cross-sectional study with 40 informal caregivers of elderly people who suffered falls. Data were collected using the following instruments: Fantastic Lifestyle, quality of life by the Form Health Survey: SF-36, caregiver burden by the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA), and Barthel index to verify functionality. Most of the caregivers who participated in the study had a lifestyle considered to be 'good'. In the quality of life, the domains limitations due to emotional aspects, functional capacity and limitations due to physical aspects were the most scored. It was found that the lower the burden, the better the general health status; and the lower the burden, the greater the functional independence of the elderly cared for.  

This article aims to characterize the socioeconomic profile of a group of elderly people who care for the elderly in the city of Santa Maria / RS and to analyze how these caregivers perceive their quality of life. The snowball technique was used to find the participants, with seven caregivers taking part in the research. There were findings regarding satisfaction with the caregiver occupation, the influence of the occupation on daily life and the understanding of caregiver support groups. 

This study aimed to understand the process of anticipatory grief in institutionalized elders. This is a qualitative study with six institutionalized elderly people aged 60 and over, using a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. It was found that the institutionalization of elders often exacerbates their feelings of grief regarding losses in their previous history, leading to social isolation and to a disinvestment in one’s own self, which manifests as anticipatory grief about one’s own finitude.

This article deals with an interdisciplinary experiment conducted in the Association of Assistance to Needy and Elder of Santa Cruz do Sul, RS. The article presents some data related with the characteristics of institutionalized elderly and points out the importance of the university in the development of interdisciplinary actions that contribute to the strengthening of family and social ties. The interdisciplinary collective actions with old-aged people, challenging professionals to develop their intervention, in a way that involves the multidimensionality of aging.

We describe the experience of a psychosocial intervention in a long-stay care instituition for elderly. The localized demands were the issues of identity, self-esteem, sensory stimulation and caregivers. The psychosocial approach provided a welcoming space and acknowledgment the singualrity of the elderly. Psychosocial studies are suggested, focusing on the importance of the psychologist in the highly complex equipment of the social assistance system, in long-stay care institutions for elderly.

The present study aimed at apprehending and comparing the Social Representations of Catholic religious in the face of old age LGBT. Participants of the study were 61 practitioners of Catholicism, the majority with more than five years of religious practice (96,7%). With the analyzes made it was observed that the population represents the old age LGBT with negative and stereotyped visions, but, it was also observed a presence of a understandable view to the public 

El objetivo de esta investigación es llevar a cabo un análisis de las personas mayores que ejercen de voluntarios en las organizaciones del tercer sector, focalizando la atención en las características más destacadas de este fenómeno. Para la elaboración de esta revisión teórica, hemos realizado una búsqueda exhaustiva de literatura científica que versase sobre los mayores como voluntarios, así como los principales efectos positivos y beneficios que les reportan la asunción de estas actividades. 

This study proposal sought to identify the perception of the student from the last year of the nursing graduate course about the finiteness of the elderly in the context of palliative care. The participants were twenty students who revealed the difficulties in relation to the care with the hospitalized elderly, the fear of death and of being unable to deal with this situation. There is a need for previous preparation of the student to develop the care with the elderly, with an emphasis on skills and abilities to be enhanced in the work routine.      

The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Common Mental Disorder (CMD) and to verify its association with functional disability in the elderly. Cross-sectional study with application of the instruments: sociodemographic, health, behavioral data, Self-Reporting Questionnaire, Katz Index and Lawton and Brody Scale. The prevalence of CMD was 37.2% and it was found to be associated with sex, health perception, nervous system disease and functional disability in BADL and IADL. 

Aging is a heterogeneous process with morphological, biochemical and psychological changes that affect motor skills in carrying out the daily activities of the elderly. The aim of the study was to compare the elderly with and without fear of falling in relation to motor performance and quality of life; and correlate the fear of falling with motor performance and quality of life. This is a cross-sectional field study with a quantitative approach developed with 42 elderly people from the Rehabilitation Center in physiotherapy in the city of Mogi das Cruzes, SP, Brazil. The performance of Daily Life Activities, Instrumental Daily Life Activity, fear of falling, quality of life, motor performance and handgrip strength were verified. Elderly people who attend a Rehabilitation Center in Mogi das Cruzes, SP, Brazil, have a relationship between motor performance and functional capacity with the fear of falling. 

This study investigated whether there is a difference between body image and genital self-image in women with and without urinary incontinence, as well as the presence of sociodemographic factors and gynecological history of 132 elderly women. Incontinent elderly women showed a statistically significant difference in marital status, presence of warts and number of deliveries in relation to those who had no losses. Body image and genital self-image did not differ between groups. 

This article aims to investigate the experience of the main female family caregiver of the elderly dependent. A qualitative study was carried out, in which eight main family caregivers were interviewed. From the discursive material, five categories of analysis emerged. It is concluded that the experience of caring for dependent elderly people generates physical and emotional overload, with losses in the personal, family and social spheres of the family caregiver's life.

With the advancement of modernity, health professions focus their studies on isolated diseases, leaving the experience of the diseased to the side. The aim of this study was to learn how a group of elderly people explain the causality of the chronic diseases that affect them. This is a qualitative study conducted with 54 elders, health insurance users, residents of the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The interviewed group points to the interaction of various causal models, which leads to the thought of a common cultural construction, an explanatory model about the causality of the chronic diseases that affect them. 

The area of Palliative Care (PC) aims at the quality of life to the patient (QLP) who has a disease that has no prognosis for cure. Objective: Carry out an integrative review of the literature on PC in the field of Speech Therapy. Methods: a search was performed considering the descriptors “Palliative Care” and “Speech Therapy”. Results: eight studies met the inclusion criteria. Conclusion: Speech therapy in the area of PC, still has little scientific evidence, however, it is possible to identify its contribution to improving the QLP.