scholarly journals Functional limitations related to foot pain in the elderly

Rev Rene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 586
Author(s):  
Fabiana Maria Rodrigues Lopes de Oliveira ◽  
Keylla Talitha Fernandes Barbosa ◽  
Saemmy Grasiely Estrela de Albuquerque ◽  
Mayara Muniz Dias Rodrigues ◽  
Kamyla Félix Oliveira dos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Disability ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Foot Pain ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Pain In The Elderly ◽  
State Examination

Objective: to investigate the association between foot pain and functional disability in the elderly. Methods: descriptive study conducted among the elderly attended in a geriatric outpatient clinic of a university hospital. The sample consisted of 114 elderly who reported foot pain. Data was collected through subsidized interview, using structured instrument, covering demographic variables and the Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index in Elderly and the Mini Mental State Examination. Results: there was a high incidence of foot pain among women and young elderly as well as significant inability to perform certain daily activities. Conclusion: it is identified the need for special attention to the health of elderly reporting foot pain, since this tends to restrict daily activities, causing decreased quality of life, immobilization and possible episodes of falls.

scholarly journals Clinical diagnosis of 80 cases of dementia in a university hospital

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Teles Vieira ◽  
Norami de Moura Barros ◽  
Leonardo Caixeta ◽  
Sergio Machado ◽  
Adriana Cardoso Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Data ◽  
Lewy Body Dementia ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Functional Activities ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
State Examination

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to estimate the prevalence of dementia subtypes and to assess the socio-demographic data of patients attending the outpatient clinic of dementia at Hospital das Clínicas from January 2008 to December 2009, in the city of Goiânia-GO, Brazil. METHODS: Procedures provided for diagnosis included physical and neurological examination, laboratory tests, neuroimaging and DSM-IV. The functional capacity and level of cognitive deficit were assessed by Pfeffer Functional Activities Questionnaire (Pfeffer-FAQ) and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), respectively. RESULTS: Eighty patients met the criteria for dementia. The mean age was 63.48 (± 16.85) years old, the schooling was 3.30 (± 3.59) years old, the MMSE was 13.89 (± 7.79) and Pfeffer 17.73 (± 9.76). The Vascular Dementia (VD; 17.5%) was the most frequent cause of dementia, followed by Lewy body dementia (LBD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) (12.25%). CONCLUSION: Considering entire sample and only the elderly over 60 years, VD, AD and LBD are the most common subtypes observed at both groups. Further epidemiological studies are necessary to confirm such rates, which may have a considerable impact on the organization and planning of healthcare services in our country.

scholarly journals Comfort needs as perceived by hospitalized elders: an analysis under the light of Kolcaba’s theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanni Moraes de Oliveira ◽  
Kátia Neyla de Freitas Macêdo Costa ◽  
Kamyla Félix Oliveira dos Santos ◽  
Jacira dos Santos Oliveira ◽  
Maria Auxiliadora Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Symptom Relief ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
Thematic Units

ABSTRACT Objective: To reveal the Comfort needs as perceived by hospitalized elders, using Kolcaba’s theory. Methods: Descriptive and qualitative study, with 11 elders hospitalized in a university hospital, aiming to identify their needs for Comfort. Results: Discourses were categorized in four thematic units: Physical, Environmental, Sociocultural, and Psychospiritual. In the Physical context, several subcategories were found, namely, Symptom Relief; Daily Life Activities; Hygiene and personal care; Diet; Sleep and rest. In the Environmental context, the Comfort was considered to be superior than in the elders’ home; in the Sociocultural one, family bonds were found to become more distant, triggering feelings of missing one’s family and isolation, in the Psychospiritual context, spirituality and religiosity stood out. Final considerations: The Comfort needs of the hospitalized elders enable one to reflect on nursing care, offering information to improve the quality of assistance and to attend to the real needs of the elderly.

scholarly journals Quality of life in swallowing of the elderly patients affected by stroke

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émerson Soares PONTES ◽  
Ana Karênina de Freitas Jordão do AMARAL ◽  
Flávia Luiza Costa do RÊGO ◽  
Elma Heitmann Mares AZEVEDO ◽  
Priscila Oliveira Costa SILVA
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Feeding Time ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The elderly population faces many difficulties as a result of the aging process. Conceptualize and evaluate their life quality is a challenge, being hard to characterize the impact on daily activities and on functional capacity. The stroke is one of the most disabling neurological diseases, becoming a public health problem. As an aggravating result, there is dysphagia, a disorder that compromises the progression of the food from the mouth to the stomach, causing clinical complications to the individual. OBJECTIVE Characterize the life quality of the elderly swallowing affected by stroke. METHODS Cross-sectional study conducted at the University Hospital, attended by 35 elderly with stroke, being 19 women and 16 men, with age between 60 and 90 years old, that self-reported satisfactory overall clinical picture. It was applied the Quality of Life Swallowing protocol. The data were statistically analyzed, by means of ANOVA tests, Spearman correlation, t test, with significance level of 5%. RESULTS The mean age was 69.5 years; as for the scores obtained by the 35 participants in the 11 domains of the protocol, it was observed a change in score indicating severe to moderate impact in quality of life related to self-reported swallowing (31.8% to 59.5%); the domain that most interfered was the feeding time (31.8%). CONCLUSION Elderly affected by stroke that present dysphagia has low scores in quality of life related to swallowing.

A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE NON-PARAMETRIC AND FUZZY LOGIC-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS IN RECOGNITION OF HUMAN DAILY ACTIVITIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 1750003
Author(s):  
Hamideh Namdari ◽  
Ehsan Tahami ◽  
Fatimah Hadian Far
Keyword(s):  
Small Body ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Full Description ◽  
The People ◽  
Knn Classifier ◽  
Neuro Fuzzy ◽  
Significant Step ◽  
Non Parametric

Appropriate and accurate detection of the people like the elderly and patients suffering from imbalanced-oriented problems is a significant step to implement the necessary actions in order to enhance quality of life and increase their independence during their life. The aim of this paper was to investigate the differences in performance of parametric and non-parametric classifiers in recognition of daily activities of people. As daily affairs of human being can change dynamically, new patterns may emerge as well as an old habit may be forgotten or stopped to be used. It is difficult to build a classifier that will have a full description of all possible ways to perform an activity. In this research, for exact identification of everyday activities, data collected from information of four accelerometers in noteworthy points of body which have the greatest role in the process of identifying and separating activities. This dataset was acquired from UCI Machine Learning database. After extraction of convenient features, different algorithms including KNN and Neuro-fuzzy classifiers were applied to data to check the rate of accuracy in exact recognition of daily activities. The results showed that the KNN classifier as anon-parametric classifier encompasses the highest accuracy rate of about 99.758[Formula: see text]. It is concluded that recognizing activities using multiple small body-worn accelerometers and implementing an optimized unobtrusive approach can lead us to a significant result.

Recurrence of First Afebrile Unprovoked Seizure and Parental Consanguinity: A Hospital-Based Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 643-648
Author(s):  
Miral A. Al Momani ◽  
Basima Almomani ◽  
Salar Bani Hani ◽  
Andrew Lux
Keyword(s):  
University Hospital ◽  
Unprovoked Seizure ◽  
Recurrent Attack ◽  
Parental Consanguinity ◽  
Pediatric Clinic ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
History Of

Purpose: The aim of the current study was to determine the incidence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors associated with the recurrence of first unprovoked seizure in children. Methods: A retrospective, observational study was conducted at King Abdullah University Hospital in Jordan. Children aged from 1 month to 16 years old who attended the hospital between January 2013 to December 2017 were evaluated on the basis of medical records, from the first visit and for a 1-year follow-up period. Results: During the study period, a total of 290 cases with first unprovoked seizure were included. The incidence of first unprovoked seizure was 441 cases per 100 000 patient visits to the pediatric clinic. More than half of the cases developed a second attack (55.3%). Children with parental consanguinity were almost 3 times more likely to develop a second attack of seizure compared to those without parental consanguinity (odds ratio [OR] = 2.785, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.216-6.378, P = .015) and patients who had a history of focal type of seizure were almost twice as likely to develop seizure recurrence (OR = 1.798, 95% CI = 1.013-3.193, P = .045). Conclusions: The current results showed a high incidence of first unprovoked seizure among children in Jordan. Parental consanguinity and focal seizure were associated with the increased risk of recurrent attack. This finding highlights the need for public education regarding the outcomes of parental consanguinity to improve the patient’s quality of life.

scholarly journals Karakteristik dan Tingkat Kemandirian Lansia di Panti Sosial Rehabilitasi Lanjut Usia (RSLU) Pemerintah Provinsi Jawa Barat

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Susan Susyanti ◽  
Dais Lukman Nurhakim
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Government Hospital ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Survey Approach

Changes in brain structure will be experienced by the elderly, it�s causing a setback in the quality of life that has implications for independence in activity. The existence of these changes can lead to deterioration in the quality of health of the elderly both physically and psychologically, causing an impairment in the elderly's independence. The purpose of this study is to know the description of the characteristics and level of independence of the elderly in West Java Provincial Government Hospital. The research method uses quantitative descriptive of the survey approach. The sample size is 62 elderly with non random sampling technique in the form of accidental sampling. Characteristic data collection by filling in questions based on the results of elderly answers, while data on the level of independence is collected using the observation sheet which is checked list in accordance with the elderly answers. The results showed that most of the elderly (72.6%) were female, the majority of the elderly (58.1%) had lived in elderly homes for > 1 year, most of the health conditions of the elderly (51.6%) were in the sick category, almost as determined elderly (38.7%) included in the advanced category (elderly), most of the elderly (56.4%) were at moderate levels of independence. Conclusion, most of the elderly at the elderly homes are women, living > 1 year, sick condition, moderate level of independence and almost half are included in the elderly category. Suggestions for nurses to do more guidance in the form of elderly independence training, so that within its limitations the elderly are able to do their daily activities independently.

scholarly journals Self-reported tooth loss and cognitive function: Data from the Hispanic established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly (Hispanic EPESE)

2013 ◽  
pp. 139-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A Reyes Ortiz ◽  
John S Luque ◽  
Charlotta K Eriksson ◽  
Libia Soto
Keyword(s):  
Tooth Loss ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Office Visit ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Epidemiologic Studies ◽  
Memory Score ◽  
Dental Office ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
State Examination

Objective: To explore the association between tooth loss and cognitive functioning among persons 65 years and older. Methods: Data from the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (Wave 1: 1993-1994, n= 3,032; Wave 2: 1995-1996, n= 2,424; and Wave 3: 1998-1999, n= 1,967). The dependent variables were the scores from the total Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE: score 0-30) and its global domains (memory: score 0-6; and no-memory: score 0-24). Independent variables included the number of teeth (0-12 vs. 13-32), socio-demographic characteristics, last dental office visit, medical conditions, depressive symptoms, and functional limitations which were tested for associations with the dependent variables. Results: In bivariate analyses, participants with fewer teeth (0-12) tended to have significantly lower mean scores for memory, no-memory, and total MMSE when compared to those with more teeth (13-32), both at baseline and at follow-up. In fully adjusted longitudinal-mixed models, participants with fewer teeth had a greater decline in total MMSE through five years of follow-up with a decrease of 0.12 fewer points each year (SE ± 0.05, p <0.01), when compared to those with more teeth. Conclusion: Having fewer teeth was associated with greater cognitive decline over time.

Suicidal Ideation, Depression and Quality of Life in the Elderly: Study in a Gerontopsychiatric Consultation

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Ponte ◽  
Vera Almeida ◽  
Lia Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Functional Disability ◽  
Geriatric Depression Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

AbstractThe global increase in elderly population all over the world, especially in Portugal, justifies the importance of mental health study in this age group. The aim of this study was to characterize the elderly patients in Gerontopsychiatry Consultation of Centro Hospitalar São João in Porto, related to socio-demographic aspects, physical and global disabilities, depression, suicidal ideation and quality of life, and to explore the association between suicidal ideation, depression, and quality of life and global and functional disability. In this cross-sectional study, 155 patients were recruited consecutively, with a final sample of 75 subjects (59 women and 16 men) without cognitive deficits and a mean age of 72.8 (SD = 6.04). Concerning the depression level measured with the Geriatric Depression Scale (Barreto et al., 2008) it was found that 66.7% presented severe depression and suicidal ideation (M = 41.96, SD = 36.38), a value considered with a potential risk of suicide using the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (Ferreira & Castela, 1999). The elderly also perceived their quality of life as low, revealing global disability assessed with the EasyCare- Elderly Assessment (Sousa & Figueiredo, 2000a). A significant positive correlation was also found between depression and suicidal ideation (rs =.71, p < .001), as well as quality of life (rs = .50, p < .001), and suicidal ideation with quality of life (rs = .40, p < .001). The data obtained in this study corroborate the results found in other studies.

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