Factors associated with body mass index in a cohort of older adults: Structural equation modeling analysis.

Background: Considering the interrelationship between the multiple determinants of nutritional status, analyses are needed to estimate direct and mediated effects between the variables that influence body mass index (BMI) in older adults. We aimed to verify the direct and indirect effects of sociodemographic, behavioral and health conditions on the BMI of older adults in the community.

Methods: This is a longitudinal study based on data collection in 2015 and 2020.

Exploring the effect of the structural model of active aging on the self-assessment of quality of life among older people: A cross-sectional and analytical study.

Background: Although studies have examined the relationship between variables associated with active aging and quality of life (QoL), no studies have been identified to have investigated the effect of a structural model of active aging on QoL in a representative sample of older people in the community.

Objective: To measure the domains and facets of QoL in older people and identify the effect of the structural model of active aging on the self-assessment of QoL.

Design And Setting: This cross-sectional analytical study included 957 older people living in urban areas.

Social support among older adults understood through structural equation modeling.

Objectives: to analyze factors associated, directly and indirectly, with lower social support of older adults, according to sex.

Methods: a cross-sectional study, with 941 older adults from a health micro-region in Minas Gerais. Descriptive and trajectory analyzes were carried out (p<0.

Quality of life in older adults according to race/color: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Increased longevity is accompanied by new social and health demands, such as the race/color social construct, indicating the need to identify the specific needs of older adults to maintain and improve their quality of life.

Objective: We aimed to verify the direct and indirect associations of demographic, economic, and biopsychosocial characteristics with self-assessed quality of life in older adults according to race/color.

Design And Setting: This cross-sectional study included 941 older adults living in the urban area of a health microregion in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Quality of life and social vulnerability of older adults in the urban community: A cross-sectional study.

We aimed to investigate the association between social vulnerability and the quality of life of older adults. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 805 older adults. Quality of life was measured using the WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOLOLD instruments.

Racial inequities and biopsychosocial indicators in older adults.

Objective: to analyze the association of self-reported skin color/race with biopsychosocial indicators in older adults.

Method: cross-sectional study conducted with a total of 941 older adults from a health micro-region in Brazil. Data were collected at home with instruments validated for the country.

Scientific knowledge about infections by the new coronavirus in older adults: a scoping review.

Objective: to map the scientific knowledge about COVID-19 in older adults.

Method: this is a scoping review literature review. A search was performed in the PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science and LILACS databases.

Spatial analysis of elder abuse in a Brazilian municipality.

Objective: to analyze the spatial distribution of elder abuse in Ribeirão Preto-SP, according to victims' place of residence and event.

Method: an ecological study that analyzed 1,153 elder abuse police reports (2009 to 2013). Local gross and empirical Bayesian rates and Local Moran's I were calculated.

Association between living arrangement and quality of life for older adults in the community.

Objective: to compare the sociodemographic and economic characteristics of the older adults in the community according to the living arrangement and to verify the association between the type of living arrangement and the quality of life scores.

Method: a cross-sectional epidemiological study conducted with 796 older adults in the community. To assess quality of life (dependent variable), network and social support (adjustment variable), validated and applied chi-square tests, descriptive statistical analysis, multiple comparison analysis (ANOVA) and multiple linear regression model (p<0.

Frontline Nursing Care: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Brazilian Health System.

Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are constant challenges for global public health. After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been the focus of attention for scientists, governments and populations worldwide. In Brazil, the first case of COVID-19 was identified on February 26 2020, being the first country in Latin America to have affected patients.

Evidence of association between the use of drugs and community-dwelling older people frailty: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The scientific literature has shown that an association between polypharmacy and frailty exists. However, few studies have also considered drug interactions and the use of potentially inappropriate medications.

Objective: To evaluate the association between the use of drugs and frailty among community-dwelling older people.

Analysis of violence against older adults in police reports.

Objective: To analyze a historical series of cases of elder abuse as described in police reports.

Method: Descriptive, retrospective and documentary study based on police reports issued at the older adult police department whose information was collected through an instrument developed by the researchers.

Results: Five categories were identified: 1 - physical violence; 2 - violence report; 3 - psychological violence; 4 - habits related to psychoactive substance use; 5 - reasons for violence.

Potentially inappropriate medication use and frailty phenotype among community-dwelling older adults: A population-based study.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the association between potentially inappropriate medication use and frailty phenotype among community-dwelling older adults and to identify factors associated with the use of these drugs according to frailty condition.

Background: There is insufficient evidence about the association between inappropriate medication use and the condition of frailty, particularly among community-dwelling older adults. Therefore, data obtained from population surveys should be made available in order to support the development of clinical guidelines about the prevention of frailty.

Report of multiple abuse against older adults in three Brazilian cities.

This study analyses the multiple abuse against older adults reported to the elder abuse police units of three Brazilian cities from 2009 to 2013. This is a longitudinal and retrospective study carried out through the analysis of police reports (PRs) in the elder abuse police units of three Brazilian cities: Ribeirão Preto (SP), Teresina (PI), and João Pessoa (PB). Descriptive statistical analysis consisted of absolute and percentage frequencies.

Overweight in rural elderly: association with health conditions and quality of life.

This study aimed to verify the association of overweight with functional disability, self-reported morbidities and quality of life (QoL) among rural elderly dwellers. This is a domestic and cross-sectional survey conducted in the rural region of a municipality of Southeast Brazil. Three hundred seventy non-overweight elderly people and 192 overweight elderly people were evaluated with the following tools: semi-structured; Katz and Lawton and scales; World Health Organization Quality of Life - BREF and World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment for Older Adults.

Older adults abuse in three Brazilian cities.

Objective: To analyze the police reports filed by older adults who suffered abuse in order to identify the socio-demographic characteristics of victims and aggressors, type of violence, location, as well as to compare rates in three Brazilian cities in the period from 2009 to 2013.

Method: Ecological study, in which 2,612 police reports registered in Police Stations were analyzed. An instrument was used to obtain data from the victim, the aggressor and the type of violence.

Cardiovascular risk factors associated with frailty syndrome among hospitalized elderly people: a cross-sectional study.

Context And Objective:: Identification of frailty syndrome and its relationship with cardiovascular risk factors among hospitalized elderly people is important, since this may contribute towards broadening of knowledge regarding this association within tertiary-level services. This study aimed to evaluate the cardiovascular risk factors associated with frailty syndrome among hospitalized elderly people.

Design And Setting:: Observational cross-sectional study in a public teaching hospital.

Living arrangements of the elderly and the sociodemographic and health determinants: a longitudinal study.

Objectives: to describe the sociodemographic characteristics and the number of morbidities in the elderly, according to the dynamics of living arrangements and evaluate the sociodemographic and health determinants of the living arrangements.

Methods: this is a household longitudinal survey (2005-2012), carried out with 623 elderly people. Descriptive statistical analysis and multinomial logistic regression were performed (p<0.

Body mass index as discriminator of the lean mass deficit and excess body fat in institutionalized elderly people.

The objective of this study was to identify the discriminating criterion for body mass index (BMI) in the prediction of low fat free mass and high body fat percentage according to sex among older people. Observational analytical study with cross-sectional design was used for this study. All institutionalized older people from the city of Uberaba (Minas Gerais, Brazil) who fit within the inclusion and exclusion criteria were approached.