Adaptation and validation of the Caregiver Burden Inventory for use with caregivers of elderly individuals.

Objective: to adapt and validate the Caregiver Burden Inventory for use with caregivers of older adults in Brazil.

Method: methodological study involving initial translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, expert committee review, pre-testing, submission of the final version to the original authors, and assessment of the inventory's psychometric properties. The inventory assesses five dimensions of caregiver burden: time-dependence, developmental, physical, social and emotional dimensions.

[Use and access of the elderly to primary health care services in Porto Alegre (RS, Brasil)].

A cross-sectional study was carried out in the second semester of 2004 by means of a household survey with 292 elderly people in a Southern Brazilian city, selected by probabilistic sampling. The objectives were: to describe the use and geographic access of the elderly to primary healthcare (PHC) in Porto Alegre (RS), and to analyze the association between variables of interest to the study and access to PHC. Descriptive and bivariate analysis was used.