Produção Nacional
QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE ELDERLY DOMICILED IN CARPINA (PERNAMBUCO STATE, BRAZIL) DETERMINED BY BARTHEL INDEX
2017; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO MARANHÃO; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.22615/2526-1746-jgm-2.2-7868
ISSN2526-1746
AutoresShirley Maria Souza, Erlaine Bernardo Silva, Mayze Nascimento Albuquerque, Glécio Machado Siqueira, Joel Medeiros Bezerra, Danilo Madeira Campos Gonçalves, Renata Adélia Gueiros de Almeida,
Tópico(s)Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
ResumoThe objective of this study was to determine the quality of life in elderly Health Family Units (HFU) in Carpina (PE, Brazil) evaluated by Barthel Index and application of geostatistical tools.The main conclusions are the Barthel Index characterized the elderly of municipality as independent, with scattered cases of dependency in the elderly, being directly related frameworks of advanced age; the sampling scheme was not sufficient to detect the spatial variability of the data.
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