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The objective was to understand the aging process of elderly users of a Day Center, through their own perceptions. Qualitative study, conducted with 14 elderly people who attend this space, through interviews submitted to Content Analysis. The current ethical precepts were followed. Four thematic categories emerged, which present the feelings and changes arising from the aging process, as well as the Day Center as a promoter of healthy aging. 

This research, descriptive and sectional, aimed to present psychoeducational interventions in the group of professional caregivers and in their relationship with the elderly in a Day center for the elderly. The experience showed that caring can be rewarding, but professional unpreparedness or lack of support can generate physical and emotional burden for the caregiver, with an outcome for mental health. Thus, interventions with caregivers have been fundamental in sharing knowledge, raising awareness of old age phenomena, providing professional development, which sustains and promotes quality in personal and provided care. Secondarily, it generated therapeutic effects through the expression of members' emotions and emotional continence in the group field.Key words:

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of the elderly. The objective of this research was to analyze the representations about the elderly in coping with the pandemic of COVID-19 in the publications and comments on Facebook of the Ministry of Health of Brazil. The coding model involved risk groups and multiple vulnerabilities, so that social representations highlighted prejudices against the elderly. 

The objective of this study, carried out by the Center for the Study and Research of Aging at PUC-SP, Brazil, in partnership with Staffordshire University – England, UK, was to analyze the action of volunteers from the National Pastoral of the Elderly, in terms of practical support and loving accompaniment. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study is cross-sectional, quantitative, with a non-probabilistic sample, and involved 4,114 volunteers, mostly women, through telephone interviews done on a 7 period in May 2020. 

This descriptive study of the experience report type aims to discuss the prevention of COVID-19 and the health promotion of elderly users of a School Health Center in the city of São Paulo, through the bibliographic review of the eminent literature on practices educational gerontological and interventions developed by the internship group in this bias. It was analyzed that the educational space in Primary Health Care (AB) is configured as an instrument for changes in the current pandemic scenario of COVID-19, presenting itself as a space for self-care and support in promoting longevity. Thus, the aging process and preventive care are in line with public health policies for the elderly and in PHC. 

O estudo teve como objetivo realizar um levantamento na produção científica existente sobre os fatores de risco associados ao delírio pós-operatório (DPO) em idosos. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura, com abordagem exploratória-descritiva e qualitativa, realizada nas bases de dados indexadas Medical Literature and Retrivial System online (MEDLINE), na Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), na Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciência da Saúde (LILACS) e na Scientific Eletronic Library online (SCIELO), no período de agosto a setembro de 2019. Evidenciou-se a frequência do problema; porém, uma deficiência no diagnóstico, levando à necessidade de mais estudos sobre o tema. 

This article sought to identify representations about the elderly and COVID-19 in journalistic articles. Based on the Social Representations Theory, 60 reports published between January and April 2020 in the newspapers O Globo and Super Notícias were analyzed. The material was handled by the Iramuteq software. The representations found are in line with the COVID-19 approach as a potential risk for the elderly; need for health protection to avoid contamination, made possible by social distance and political issues. 

Objetiva-se dar voz a pessoas idosas que envelheceram com o vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV), a fim de compreendermos suas vulnerabilidades e experiências individuais. Como métodos, estudo qualitativo que utilizou a História Oral de Vida com idosos portadores de HIV com mais de dez anos de tratamento. Como resultados, das respostas dos onze idosos entrevistados, definiram-se seis categorias, por meio da análise de conteúdo dessas falas. As conclusões evidenciam que encontramos diversas formas de enfrentamentos e vicissitudes que culminaram no próprio silenciamento biográfico, tornando visíveis as vulnerabilidades de envelhecer com o HIV. 

The objective was to identify the link between body motor performance and anthropometric measurements in elderly participants in social groups. Cross-sectional Study, with a sample of 105 elderly, where it was evaluated cognitive evaluation, socio-demographic information, health status, functional capacity, body motor performance evaluation and anthropometric variables. Were Found significant statistical differences between balance test, Measures Hip Circumference, body mass index, weight, height and Waist Circumference.       

 This article presents the results of a cross-sectional, quantitative study using the snowball sampling technique to analyze a sample in Brazil as part of an international research carried out in partnership with Red Interdisciplinar de Psicogerontología in seven more Latin American countries, from May to June of 2020. It presents the profile of a group of elderly people, of high social status, and their answers on how they keep themselves to physical distancing. Although the group does not represent the majority of the Brazilian elderly population, it is believed that it is important to know the various snippets from the countless old ages existing in their various social insertions 

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is considered relevant with the current context to know the role of Gerontology, through the actions and contributions of the professional Gerontologist and the Brazilian Association of Gerontology to society, within the scope of a multifaceted, complex professional performance and dynamics of care management for the elderly; aging and old age. The purpose of this article is to present the experience of the activities of the Gerontologist and the Brazilian Association of Gerontology (ABG) in different contexts in the face of the quarantine period by COVID-19. 

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presents challenges to older people, especially those from low and middle income countries. Social distancing is one of the restrictive measures adopted to avoid contagion, which can which can trigger damages to physical and mental health to older adults. In addition to that, digital exclusion, infodemia and ageism are also present in this context. Digital access can assist older people in various aspects of life, including minimizing the negative consequences caused by social distancing. With the help of technology, educational measures have great potential to reduce the negative consequences of COVID-19 pandemic encouraging efforts to overcome the challenges that are posed to older adults. 

The objective of this research is to carry out an analysis on the Covid-19, focusing attention on the group of older people and particularly on nursing homes as the main victims of the pandemic. To prepare this theoretical review, we have carried out and exhaustive search of scientific literature, which deals with Covid-19, elderly people, nursing homes and main negative feelings experienced during confinement.  

Aging is a challenging process for any individual, either because of the many normative transitions that imply an increasing physical, psychological and social vulnerability, or because of the imminent confrontation with one's finitude. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenge has become a nightmare especially for LTCF residents, who are even more vulnerable due to the risks of contagion and the impact of the severe and prolonged physical and social isolation they are subjected to. This article explores such an impact under a biopsychosocial dimension, in particular, proposing theoretical foundations for an analysis of the impact of the feelings of threat and loss experienced in an intense and prolonged way in this phase of the life cycle. The Theory of Attachment is used, a contemporary approach that, supported by concepts from Psychology and Ethology, developed the conceptual structures necessary to understand the impact of threats and dangers on human development and, therefore, to understand the effects of the pandemic on seniors. 

This article analyzes the treatment that was given to the elderly by the digital media in the context of COVID 19 in Peru during the first weeks of the mandatory social isolation measure. Documentary research and exploratory methodology were used, as well as, analytic frameworks of framing theory and ageism to analyse a group of 99 journalistic notes. The findings showed that the media treatment of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic has reproduced ageist stereotypes. They were represented as a homogeneous group which is associated to economic dependence, vulnerability, as well as, lacking of agency and decision-making power. 

The Covid 19 pandemic required protective measures with impact on mental health. Teleconsultation is an important care device for the elderly, considered in this context as a vulnerable population. This reflexive article aims to deal with aspects that can be present in Ocupational Therapy teleconsultation assistance to elderly in social distancing due to the pandemic. 

This is an experience report developed from the perspective of health education through telephone calls to elderly diabetics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirty elderly people received information about the symptoms, forms of transmission and preventive measures of COVID-19 according to the Ministry of Health. The study explores the importance of health education and telehealth for health promotion. 

This essay aims to understand the influence of the family support network on the health of the elderly in Covid-19 times. From the theoretical matrix on the social determinants of health, a reflection was made about the remarkable importance of the family support network in the health of the elderly in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. As an interface scenario, primary health care is advocated, through health promotion actions based on the humanization of care, considering the different social determinants of the health of the elderly. 

The present study aimed to evaluate the association of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in women during the climacteric / menopause period of a Basic Health Unit in the city of Canoas / RS, Brazil. This study is descriptive and exploratory. Data collection took place after the project was approved by the Ethics Committee (CAAE 86378818.1.0000.5349). All participants signed the Free and Informed Consent Form (ICF). The instruments used were: the sociodemographic questionnaire; the questionnaire validated for Portuguese “Menopause Rating Scale (MRS)” and three open questions that questioned whether they used medications and whether they were used continuously, as well as whether they had cardiovascular disease and their perception of the climacteric / menopause phase. Associations were analyzed using Spearman's correlation test, with a significance level of 5% (p <0.05) and using the SPSS version 21.0 program. Regarding the sociodemographic results of the sample, the average age of women was 53.3 ± 8.2, of these 99 (48.5%) have primary education, only 98 (48.0%) work and 196 (96.0) %) of these women have children. The percentage of women treated for cardiovascular disease was 42.16%. The prevalent CVDs with diagnosis were angina, dyslipidemia, heart failure and hypertension. Estrogen deficiency is still little discussed today, being only one cycle in the life of women, but it triggers morphological and physiological changes and interferes with the cardiovascular system. For this reason, this topic deserves special attention from public policies.

O aumento da expectativa de vida fará com que o Brasil se torne o sexto país mais longevo do mundo, sendo que uma parte significativa das mulheres, as de meia-idade, próximas do limiar da velhice, ou mesmo as que passam dos 60 anos, estejam em condição de climatério/menopausa. O climatério, que corresponde à fase transitória do período reprodutivo para o não reprodutivo; e a menopausa que é, por sua vez, a cessação natural da menstruação, ambos os eventos estão exigindo mais pesquisas, especialmente se realizadas a partir de uma abordagem como a da promoção da saúde, a deste estudo. Os resultados sugerem que, de fato, a maioria das mulheres apresentam percentuais de sintomas os mais diversos, de moderados até os muito severos - uma séria problemática feminina que continua trazendo desafios à ciência, ainda mais no caso destas mulheres aqui em foco, distanciadas, muitas vezes, dos centros de atendimento médico.