Persistent pain is a frequent health problem in the elderly. Its prevalence ranges from 45% to 80%. Chronic diseases, such as depression, cardiovascular disease, cancer and osteoporosis have a higher prevalence in aged individuals and increase the risk of developing chronic pain. The presence of pain is known to be associated with sleep disorders in these patients, as well as functional impairment, decreased sociability and greater use of the health system, with consequent increase in costs. Alzheimer's disease patients seem to have a normal pain discriminative capacity and they may probably have weaker emotional and affective experience of pain when compared to other types of dementia. Many patients have language deficits and thus cannot p...
This study revised and examined the theoretical and practical base of pain measurement in elderly pe...
Depression is a disease of clinical diagnosis, widely frequent, having as main symptoms the lack of ...
Introduction: With the populational aging, a number of chronic and degenerative illnesses, common in...
Considering that elderly people using multiple drugs are prone to a higher vulnerability of their he...
Trabalho Final de Mestrado Integrado, Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de F...
Introdução: As Doenças Crônicas Não Transmissíveis (DCNT) se encontram em crescente aumento na popul...
Objective: to analyze the relationship between the distress of the family caregiver and the presenc...
A demência da doença de Alzheimer (DA) se caracteriza como uma doença crônicae degenerativa que comp...
Introduction: Aging is characterized by a progressive process and gradually taking as consequence m...
BACKGROUND: The increase in life expectancy and proportion of elderly in the population is causing a...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disease that affects cognition and perform activiti...
Since drug therapy in the elderly is complex and longterm\ud and aged people commonly present some l...
Na área da saúde, a alteração nos padrões epidemiológicos estão associados ao envelhecimento populac...
La finalidad fue evaluar el dolor y síntomas asociados en ancianos con cáncer en cuidados paliativos...
Introduction: Aging is spreading in the worldwide. How old are the people, it will have more chance ...
This study revised and examined the theoretical and practical base of pain measurement in elderly pe...
Depression is a disease of clinical diagnosis, widely frequent, having as main symptoms the lack of ...
Introduction: With the populational aging, a number of chronic and degenerative illnesses, common in...
Considering that elderly people using multiple drugs are prone to a higher vulnerability of their he...
Trabalho Final de Mestrado Integrado, Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de F...
Introdução: As Doenças Crônicas Não Transmissíveis (DCNT) se encontram em crescente aumento na popul...
Objective: to analyze the relationship between the distress of the family caregiver and the presenc...
A demência da doença de Alzheimer (DA) se caracteriza como uma doença crônicae degenerativa que comp...
Introduction: Aging is characterized by a progressive process and gradually taking as consequence m...
BACKGROUND: The increase in life expectancy and proportion of elderly in the population is causing a...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disease that affects cognition and perform activiti...
Since drug therapy in the elderly is complex and longterm\ud and aged people commonly present some l...
Na área da saúde, a alteração nos padrões epidemiológicos estão associados ao envelhecimento populac...
La finalidad fue evaluar el dolor y síntomas asociados en ancianos con cáncer en cuidados paliativos...
Introduction: Aging is spreading in the worldwide. How old are the people, it will have more chance ...
This study revised and examined the theoretical and practical base of pain measurement in elderly pe...
Depression is a disease of clinical diagnosis, widely frequent, having as main symptoms the lack of ...
Introduction: With the populational aging, a number of chronic and degenerative illnesses, common in...