2010
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102010000100016
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE:To analyze the predictive ability of a functional cognitive index of mortality in the elderly. METHODS:Cohort study performed with 1,667 elderly individuals aged more than 65 years and living in the city of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, between 1991 and 2001. Functional cognitive index was constructed from time orientation and executive functions (going shopping and taking medication), controlled by sociodemographic variables, life habits, morbidity, selfperception of health, hospitalization, edent… Show more

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“…These highly complex functions include from walking to advanced cognitive processes, like executive functions and divided attention. Youths and elderly individuals can be seen as complex systems, but many functions are approaching failure in the elderly; 24 thus, small stressors present greater clinical meaning.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…These highly complex functions include from walking to advanced cognitive processes, like executive functions and divided attention. Youths and elderly individuals can be seen as complex systems, but many functions are approaching failure in the elderly; 24 thus, small stressors present greater clinical meaning.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These are called executive functions and are lost in early. 13,24 The elderly who present diffi culties in these functions cease to accomplish them progressively because their relatives are concerned about the mistakes they make and assume their responsibilities, which aggravates the dependence condition. Executive functions are a fundamental aspect of cognition because they can compensate for functional loss and both together are strong predictors of mortality.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…9 In Brazil, a cohort study containing 1667 individuals aged 65 years or more in the municipality of São Paulo-SP (1991 to 2001) reported a significant association between self-assessment of health status and mortality: elderly individuals who assessed their health as good, poor or very poor exhibited a higher death risk than those who assessed their health as excellent. 18 Studies that analyze the determinant factors of self-assessments of health are important, given that interventions related to these factors modify the self-assessment of health and consequently, reduce mortality. 9 A recent systematic review of literature related to self-assessments of health status in the elderly Brazilian population found very few Brazilian publications on this subject.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…O percentual de mortalidade verificado neste estudo foi menor que o registrado em outros trabalhos realizados no Brasil (MACIEL; GUERRA, 2008;XAVIER et al, 2010). Vale ressaltar que esses dados da literatura referem-se a idosos residentes na comunidade, já que não foram encontrados dados relativos a óbito em estudos sobre idosos assistidos em serviços de saúde.…”
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“…Há que se destacar, ainda, que a dificuldade para memória recente foi maior para os idosos distribuídos nos dois perfis, quando comparada à dificuldade para memória antiga, o que pode associar-se a uma hierarquia de perdas. De fato, com o processo de envelhecimento, verifica-se maior comprometimento da atenção (registro de informações) e do resgate das informações previamente estocadas (memória de evocação), tarefas dependentes da memória recente, como também na consolidação de informações imediatas (memória episódica recente) (XAVIER et al, 2010).…”
Section: Variáveisunclassified