Objective: to understand the perception of health and law professionals regarding care for frail elderly people who live alone. Methods: qualitative research, carried out through interviews with health and law professionals, ...

The pandemic forced the elderly to establish strict quarantines. But that measure of care prevented them from performing a daily self-care exercise: the urban walk. Based on this dilemma, the following research confirms ...

The pandemic forced the elderly to establish strict quarantines. But that measure of care prevented them from performing a daily self-care exercise: the urban walk. Based on this dilemma, the following research confirms ...

Integrative review of national and international literature on models of comprehensive care for the elderly, from six articles analyzed in full and located through systematic searches, in the Lilacs, PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL ...

OBJECTIVE. To evaluate the occurrence of infection in elderly interned in long-term care facilities (LTCF) during 13 consecutive months. METHODS. Fifty five elderly were evaluated according to infection and, reporting was ...

Objective: to analyze the policies, actions and health services implemented in the care of the elderly in a health region of RS. Methodology: qualitative research, the municipal health secretaries of the 14 municipalities ...

Growing older was previously considered a rare phenomenon, but old age is now part of most societies. The world population is growing much older; there are currently 600 million elderly people in the world, thrice the ...

The rising of elderly population brings a large vulnerability to acquire chronic illnesses, which can implicate the functional ability of the elderly. In this way, he demands a necessity of differenced care from his family. ...