Functional elderly assessment <b>[Abstract in English]</b>

Authors

  • Daniel Marcolin Hospital São Lucas da PUCRS
  • Rodolfo Herberto Schneider
  • Roberta Rigo Dalacorte PUCRS

Keywords:

idosos, avaliação funcional, atividades de vida diária

Abstract

Aims: To evaluate the occurrence of functional disability in ambulatory eldery persons, and their association with activities of daily living. Methods: Patients sixty years or older, who had been in a general-geriatric service at a teaching hospital, were interviewed in order to detect visual impairment, hearing loss, arm and leg disfunction, urinary incontinence, poor nutrition, cognitive deficits, depression, disabilities in the activities of daily living, and instrumental activities of daily living, between January and June of 2007. Results: Of the 148 patients, whose mean age was 77,5±8,2 years, 105 (70,9%) were women, 136 (91,9%) were white, 31 (20,9%) had urinary incontinence, 25 (13,5%) had cognitive deficit, 71 (47,9%) had poor nutrition, 30 (20,3%) had symptoms of depression, 31 (20,9%) had visual impairment, 25 (16,9%) had hearing impairment, 25 (16,9%) had disabilities in their activities of daily living, and 14 (9,5%) and 48 (32,5%) had respectively arm and leg limitations. Significant association was found between hearing, cognitive, arm and leg impairments, and disabilities in activities of daily living. Conclusions: Recognizing functional disability that cause damages in individual autonomy is important in elderly patients, because they interfere in activities of daily living. KEYWORDS: WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; AGED; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING.

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Author Biographies

Daniel Marcolin, Hospital São Lucas da PUCRS

Residente de Geriatria do Hospital São Lucas da PUCRS

Rodolfo Herberto Schneider

Graduação em Medicina pela PUCRS (1990), mestrado em Medicina e Ciências da Saúde. pela PUCRS (1997), doutorado em Medicina e Ciências da Saúde. pela PUCRS (2003), aperfeicoamento em Desintometria Clínica pela Sociedade Brasileira de Densitometria Clínica (1996). Professor adjunto da PUCRS. Diretor do Instituto de Geriatria da PUCRS. Coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gerontologia Biomédica. Membro do Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da PUCRS. Revisor da Scientia Medica (PUCRS).

Roberta Rigo Dalacorte, PUCRS

Graduação em Medicina pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (1996), especialização em Acupuntura e Medicina Tradicional Chinesa pela Sociedade Médica de Acupuntura do Rio Grande do Sul (2003), mestrado em Clínica Médica pela Universidade de São Paulo (2002), residencia médica pela Universidade de São Paulo (1999 a 2001. Preceptora da Residência Médica de Geriatria da Hospital São Lucas da PUCRS e Coordenadora Técnica do Curso de Pós-graduação em Acupuntura da PUCRS.

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Published

2008-04-01

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Marcolin, D., Schneider, R. H., & Dalacorte, R. R. (2008). Functional elderly assessment <b>[Abstract in English]</b>. Scientia Medica, 18(1), 4–9. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/scientiamedica/article/view/2090

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Vol. 18 No. 1 (2008)

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