La nutrición geriátrica es, a todas luces, un tema actual con enfoque en la prevención, diagnóstico y tratamiento de enfermedades nutricionales con altas posibilidades de complicaciones que, a futuro, pueden repercutir en ...

Approximately one in five Chilean older adults has some degree of dependency. Limited evidence is available on self-perceived needs in Latin-American older people. The main aim of this study was to identify predictors of ...

Nutrition data for older adults is an area that has few studies mainly in Brazil. Due to the importance to know the behavior of this age group, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a frequency food questionnaire ...

Enhancing physical activity (PA) is recognized as a powerful intervention for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases and disability in older people. Furthermore, there is an agreement that increased PA in daily ...

Aim: To determine the association between multimorbidity and gait speed in a population-based sample of older people without functional dependency. Methods: Data were obtained from a previously made cross-sectional ...

Newspapers, magazines, internet, television programs, among other media, show issues on the life expectancy of Brazilians, ie, people are living longer, and thus the number of elderly increases progressively, with a ...

Background: informal carers of people with dementia are at greater risk of anxiety and depressive disorders if they find caregiving to be a burden. The aim of this study was to use a network analysis of cross-sectional ...

Using a representative sample, we explored the relationship of organizational (ORA), non-organizational (NORA), and intrinsic religiosity (IR) with depressive and anxious symptomatology and loneliness in Chilean older ...