2010
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-11692010000100003
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Abstract: Study conducted with secondary data from cross-sectional population-based studies developed in three regions of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), which aimed to compare the level of dependency for activities of daily living (ADL) of 155 older persons aged 80 years and over. Demographic data and the ADL scale from the 3 studies were used and a multinomial multivariate logistic regression analysis was carried out. The older persons from the urban region of Porto Alegre/RS and from the Northern region of this … Show more

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“…In terms of study location, nine 9-17 (39.0%) studies were exclusively conducted in urban areas, one 18 (4.3%) was carried out in a rural region, two 19,20 (8.7%) were performed in both and seven [21][22][23][24][25][26][27] (30.0%) did not specify whether the study was conducted in an urban or rural area. The four (17.4%) [28][29][30][31] remaining studies involved elderly persons in long term care facilities (LTCFs), users of health plans, those admitted to gerontologygeriatric nursing care and elderly persons treated in public rehabilitation services, respectively.…”
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“…In terms of study location, nine 9-17 (39.0%) studies were exclusively conducted in urban areas, one 18 (4.3%) was carried out in a rural region, two 19,20 (8.7%) were performed in both and seven [21][22][23][24][25][26][27] (30.0%) did not specify whether the study was conducted in an urban or rural area. The four (17.4%) [28][29][30][31] remaining studies involved elderly persons in long term care facilities (LTCFs), users of health plans, those admitted to gerontologygeriatric nursing care and elderly persons treated in public rehabilitation services, respectively.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Only eight (35.0%) studies 12,15,18,19,21,27-29 explicitly described one or more exclusion criteria for participation in the studies. These included: be aged under 60 or not registered in the LTCFs studied (4.3%); be a private health care plan user or reside outside the coverage area (4.3%); could not respond to the questionnaire (13.0%); was not found at home for data collection (8.7%); was bedridden (4.3%); presented cognitive and/ or mobility impairment (4.3%).…”
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“…USA and Spain) and low-and-middle-income (e.g., Brazil and Taiwan) countries are still poorly understood. For older Brazilians, some studies have proposed normative scores, but they were limited to certain age groups [10][11][12] , nonrandomized and small sample sizes [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] . A study conducted in 2005 with older women from Curitiba compared normative scores with older American women20.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…O desempenho dos idosos para realização de suas atividades pode ser identificado através da capacidade funcional que é caracterizada como a capacidade que o individuo possui em realizar suas atividades de vida diária e se relacionar com seu meio [3][4][5][6][7][8] , além de ser um marcador fundamental para o envelhecimento bem-sucedido…”
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