Frailty syndrome and risks for falling in the elderly community.

Purpose: To identify the prevalence of Frailty Syndrome in the elderly and the relationship with risk of falling.

Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional, and analytical clinical study. One hundred and one volunteers over 60 years old were submitted to audiological evaluation, Dynamic Gait Index - Brazilian brief (DGI), Timed Up and Go (TUG) and Edmonton Fragility Scale (EFE) that verified, respectively, hearing thresholds, frailty syndrome, functional and dynamic balance, and risk of falling.

Speech therapy´s intervention for falling prevention in aging.

Purpose: to verify the effectiveness of a Speech Therapy intervention program to decrease the risk of falls in elderly people.

Methods: Exploratory and intervention study where upon 148 volunteers from community, both genders, with an average of 68.6(± 6.

Quality of Life and Gait in Elderly Group.

Introduction: The process of aging could lead to seniors being more prone to falls, which affects their quality of life.

Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between quality of life and gait in the elderly.

Methods: We used World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief (WHOQOL-Brief) Brazilian version and the Dynamic Gait Index to assess fifty-six volunteers from the northeast of Brazil.

Air stimulation in tympanic perforation: inverted nystagmus study.

Unlabelled: Response inversion during warm air stimulation is the most controversial finding seen in caloric tests of individuals with tympanic membrane perforation. In such cases, very few studies explore the possible interferences found in the caloric test, bringing about controversies in the interpretation of test results.

Aim: This paper aimed at analyzing warm air stimulation effects in individuals with tympanic membrane perforation in comparison with normal healthy controls.

Ototoxicity study in workers exposed to organophosphate.

Unlabelled: Occupational and environmental exposure to agricultural pesticides represent an important health care problem in our country. Among the symptoms presented, dizziness stands out, because of a probable toxic action.

Aim: The goal of our study was to characterize vestibular test results from rural workers occupationally and environmentally exposed to organophosphates used in agricultural pesticides.

[Study about the benefits of vestibular rehabilitation in peripheral vestibular disorders].

Background: Vestibular rehabilitation in vestibular disorders.

Aim: To study the benefits of Vestibular Rehabilitation through the Brazilian Dizziness Handicap Inventory-DHI.

Method: Application of the Vestibular Rehabilitation proposed by Zee (1985) and analysis using the Sign; T-Student and Kendall's T tests.

[The use of the self-assessment questionnaire to evaluate hearing aid benefit].

Background: assessment of the subjective benefit brought by the use of the hearing aid.

Aim: to determine the benefit brought by the use of the hearing aid through a subjective procedure.

Method: the subjective benefit of the hearing aid was assessed in 15 hearing impaired individuals, novice hearing aid users, through the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aind Benefit (APHAB) self-assessment questionnaire, which was answered before and after the hearing aid fitting.