This cross-sectional study falls and their consequences are serious health problems among older populations. To study predisposing factors for falls among older people in six social groups for elderly in Erechim, RS, and their influence over these people’s lives, we used a cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 104 elderly people, 76.92% women and 23.07%, men. The results showed that 63.46% had already fallen down and 36.53% had already suffered fractures. They informed that they take care to prevent falls, wearing certain shoes, walking attentively and avoiding slippering surfaces. They also informed that during the period they were injured because of the fractures they felt depressed and sad because they could not perform daily a...
Objective: To evaluate falls prevalence and functionality of elderly and to propose actions that pro...
OBJETIVO: Verificar quais os fatores associados à presença de queda em um grupo de mulheres idosas i...
Quedas são eventos, acidentais, considerados comuns em todas as fases da vida. No entanto, entre as ...
INTRODUCTION: Falls represent one of the major health problems of the elderly with serious adverse o...
Introduction: Fall is a public health problem and the identification of associated factors constitut...
OBJETIVO: Identificar fatores associados a quedas e a quedas recorrentes em idosos vivendo na comuni...
Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the knowledge of the elderly in relation to ri...
The growth of the elderly population is a global phenomenon and, in Brazil, this transformation is h...
MENDES, Walber de Oliveira; CARNEIRO, Sandra Maria Bastos de Macêdo; JUNIOR, Luiz Severo Bem et al. ...
We conducted a cross-sectional study of a sample of 6,616 elderly living in urban areas of 100 munic...
The falls among the elderly constitute an important clinical and public health problem due to its hi...
OBJETIVO: Analisar a prevalência de quedas em idosos frágeis, suas consequências e fatores demográfi...
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A queda é um importante evento para os idosos, podendo levar a problemas físicos e psicológicos, ins...
Trata-se de um estudo realizado na população de idosos não institucionalizados residentes na cidade ...
Objective: To evaluate falls prevalence and functionality of elderly and to propose actions that pro...
OBJETIVO: Verificar quais os fatores associados à presença de queda em um grupo de mulheres idosas i...
Quedas são eventos, acidentais, considerados comuns em todas as fases da vida. No entanto, entre as ...
INTRODUCTION: Falls represent one of the major health problems of the elderly with serious adverse o...
Introduction: Fall is a public health problem and the identification of associated factors constitut...
OBJETIVO: Identificar fatores associados a quedas e a quedas recorrentes em idosos vivendo na comuni...
Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the knowledge of the elderly in relation to ri...
The growth of the elderly population is a global phenomenon and, in Brazil, this transformation is h...
MENDES, Walber de Oliveira; CARNEIRO, Sandra Maria Bastos de Macêdo; JUNIOR, Luiz Severo Bem et al. ...
We conducted a cross-sectional study of a sample of 6,616 elderly living in urban areas of 100 munic...
The falls among the elderly constitute an important clinical and public health problem due to its hi...
OBJETIVO: Analisar a prevalência de quedas em idosos frágeis, suas consequências e fatores demográfi...
Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:55:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VALDIMAR DE ARAUJO SANT...
A queda é um importante evento para os idosos, podendo levar a problemas físicos e psicológicos, ins...
Trata-se de um estudo realizado na população de idosos não institucionalizados residentes na cidade ...
Objective: To evaluate falls prevalence and functionality of elderly and to propose actions that pro...
OBJETIVO: Verificar quais os fatores associados à presença de queda em um grupo de mulheres idosas i...
Quedas são eventos, acidentais, considerados comuns em todas as fases da vida. No entanto, entre as ...