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Aging and quality of life of elderly people in rural areas

2018; Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem; Volume: 71; Issue: suppl 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0149

1984-0446

Juliana Ladeira Garbaccio, Luís Antônio Batista Tonaco, Wilson Goulart Estêvão, Bárbara Jacome Barcelos,

Health disparities and outcomes

To evaluate the quality of life and health of elderly in rural areas of Minas Gerais State's center-west.Cross-sectional study, in four municipalities of Minas Gerais State, by interviewing elderly people. Associations between socio-demographic and quality of life variables were tested, separated into "satisfactory"/"unsatisfactory" with values from the median of positive answers. It was used the chi-square test, Fisher's test and regression.182 elderly answered the questions and showed a relation with the "satisfactory" quality of life - bivariate (p < 0.05): age by 69 years (61.6%), married (61.7%), living by 54 years in rural areas (68%), with no financial support (59.5%), living with someone else (61%), non-smoker (60%), presenting good health (76.7%), satisfied with life (69.6%); regression: not having financial support, living with someone else and not smoking.Elderly people in rural areas present good quality of life/health in the cognitive aspect, access to services, goods, habits, but awareness must be constant due to their weakness.