DEPRESSÃO E CAPACIDADE FUNCIONAL EM IDOSOS INSTITUCIONALIZADOS
The elderly population has grown considerably in recent decades with a significant increase in psychic diseases, including depression, considered one of the major causes of functional decline and decreased quality of life. The purpose of this research was to understand depression in institutionalized elderly and to relate which levels of depression interfere with their functional capacity. The applied methodology consists of an integrative review based on scientific production, used as inclusion criteria, articles selected from the databases of the Virtual Health Library (VHL): LILACS, SciELO and MEDLINE, which were published between 2006 to 2016 and collected in the first half of 2017, in Portuguese and English. The results of this review are expected to contribute to the reflection on the needs of psychological support to the elderly living in the institutional context. Thus, it is important for health professionals to understand about the necessary knowledge about the symptoms of depression to serve as subsidies in the performance of humanized and integral care, with appropriate guidance for the prevention of this mental disorder and functional capacity in the elderly.