Hospital admission and the occurrence of delirium in older adults with physical frailty: cross-sectional study.

Objective: To analyze the relationship between hospitalization and the occurrence of delirium in older adults with physical frailty.

Method: Cross-sectional study carried out in a public hospital in southern Brazil. Hospitalized older adults aged ≥ 60 years participated.

Cultural practices of health care and illness of elderly people descendants of Ukrainians.

Objective: To interpret the cultural practices of health care and illness of elderly people descendants of Ukrainians.

Method: Qualitative research developed with two family general informants and 22 elderly key informants, from August 2017 to March 2020, in a rural community, analyzed through domains, taxonomies and cultural theme. The cultural theme is based on the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality.

Handgrip strength in older adults and driving aptitude.

Objective: to analyze handgrip strength as a predictor of the inability to drive in older adults.

Method: a cross-sectional study conducted in traffic clinics with 421 older adults in Curitiba-Paraná from January 2015 to December 2018. A sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, handgrip strength test, and queries from the National Registry of Qualified Drivers form were applied.

Frailty and delirium in hospitalized older adults: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

Objective: to estimate the prevalence and synthesize diverse evidence about the relationship between frailty and delirium in hospitalized older adults.

Method: a systematic review with meta-analysis in which observational studies conducted with older adults about frailty, delirium and hospitalization, were selected without time of language restrictions. The search was conducted in the MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science and CENTRAL databases during August 2021.

Production of knowledge based on the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality: documental research.

Objectives: To analyze the abstracts that relate nursing to the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, published in the annals of the main national scientific events in the category, over a 12-year period.

Methods: documental research carried out in the annals of the Brazilian Nursing Congress and the National Nursing Research Seminar. Data collection took place from July/2018 to June/2019 using a form.

Cognitive impairment and physical frailty in older adults in secondary health care.

Objective: To analyze the association between cognitive impairment and physical frailty in older adults in secondary health care.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study carried out with people aged ≥ 60 years, assisted at a geriatric and gerontology outpatient clinic. For cognitive screening, the Mini Mental State Examination, the semantic verbal fluency test, and frailty assessment using the physical frailty phenotype were used.

Postural instability and the condition of physical frailty in the elderly.

Objective: to analyze the relationship between postural instability and the condition and markers of physical frailty of the elderly people in outpatient geriatric and gerontology care.

Method: a cross-sectional study with a sample of 381 elderly subjects. Physical frailty was evaluated by the frailty phenotype and postural instability through the Berg Balance Scale.

Gait speed associated factors in elderly subjects undergoing exams to obtain the driver's license.

Objective: to analyze the factors associated with gait speed in elderly subjects undergoing physical and mental fitness tests to obtain a driver's license.

Method: a cross-sectional quantitative study conducted in transit agencies. The probabilistic sample included 421 elderly (≥ 60 years old).

Physical frailty and gait speed in community elderly: a systematic review.

Objective: To identify the outcomes of studies on gait speed and its use as a marker of physical frailty in community elderly.

Method: Systematic review of the literature performed in the following databases: LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE/PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus and ProQuest. The studies were evaluated by STROBE statement, and the PRISMA recommendations were adopted.

Physical frailty prediction model for the oldest old1.

Objective: to present a physical frailty prediction model for oldest old users of primary health care, according to clinical variables.

Method: cross-sectional study with proportional stratified sample of 243 oldest old subjects. Data were collected through a structured clinical questionnaire, handgrip strength test, walking speed, weight loss, fatigue/exhaustion, and physical activity level.

The use of the functional independence measure in elderly.

Objectives: To analyze in scientific publications how the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) has been employed to evaluate the elderly.

Methods: Integrative review of periodical publications between 2011 and 2015, available online in full-text in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Results: 129 articles were found; after the application of the criteria, they resulted in 21.

Non-frail elderly people and their license to drive motor vehicles.

Objective: to analyse the link between the non-frailty condition and the results of driving license for elderly people to drive motor vehicles.

Method: cross-sectional study with data collection in the sample period from August 2015 to March 2016. Study performed with 347 elderlies (≥60 years).

Physical frailty and fitness of older driver.

Aim: to analyze the association between physical frailty and the results of fitness capacity exams for driving vehicles among elder Brazilians.

Methods: this is a cross sectional study, performed in traffic medicine clinics of the city of Curitiba (Brazil). The data was collected through the physical frailty tests, the use of a structured questionnaire, and searches on the records of the Brazilian National Register of Qualified Drivers.

Associations between frailty syndrome and sociodemographic characteristics in long-lived individuals of a community.

Objective: investigating the association between frailty syndrome and sociodemographic characteristics in long-lived individuals of a community.

Method: a cross-sectional study with a proportional stratified sample consisting of 243 long-lived individuals. A structured instrument, scales and tests that comprise evaluating frailty were applied for data collection.

Frailty and quality of life in elderly primary health care users.

Objective: to investigate the association between physical frailty and quality of life in elderly users of primary health care in the capital of the state of Paraná.

Method: a cross-sectional, quantitative study with 203 elders. Data collected included: physical activity questionnaires, weight loss, fatigue/exhaustion, quality of life, performance of gait speed tests, and handgrip strength.

[Handgrip strength and physical activity in frail elderly].

Objective: To investigate the association between handgrip strength (HS) and physical activity in physical frailty elderly.

Method: Cross-sectional quantitative study with a sample of 203 elderly calculated based on the population estimated proportion. Tests were applied to detect cognitive impairment and assessment of physical frailty.

Gait speed and cognitive score in elderly users of the primary care service.

Objective: to investigate the association between gait speed and the cognitive score of elderly patients enrolled in a Basic Health Unit.

Method: a quantitative cross-sectional study with 203 elderly, a sample calculated based on the estimated population proportion. Data were collected using a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, gait speed test (GS) and the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE).

Longevity according to life histories of the oldest-old.

Objective: to interpret life histories of the oldest-old in a community, grounded on the perspective of the Active Aging and Life Course.

Method: this is a qualitative research. Participants included twenty seniors 80 years and older, users of a Basic Health Unit.

From real to ideal--the health (un)care of long-lived elders.

Objective: to analyze similarities and dissimilarities in the meanings assigned to health care by long-lived elders and nursing professionals in a healthcare setting.

Method: ethnographic qualitative research, based on the Spradley-McCurdy method and the interpretive anthropology of Geertz and Kleinman. The sample consisted of 20 key informants.

[Contributory factors for the functional independence of oldest old].

Objective: To investigate the socioeconomic and clinical factors that contribute to the functional independence of the oldest old of a community.

Method: Cross-sectional quantitative study whose sample consisted of 214 elderly people registered in Basic Health Units. Data were collected through structured interviews and application of the Functional Independence Measure.

[Factors associated with loss of handgrip strength in long-lived elderly].

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of reduced grip strength and associated factors in long-lived elderly, who are users of primary health care.

Method: Cross-sectional quantitative study, data were collected during the period of January to December of 2013, by applying tests and questionnaires. The convenience sampling was comprised of 157 seniors.

[Care relationship between the family caregiver and the elderly with Alzheimer].

Cross-sectional quantitative and qualitative-descriptive study, aimed to interpret the relationship in the caring of family caregivers and Alzheimer's elderly sufferers, grounded in the concrete dialectic of participation according to Gabriel Marcel's four precepts. The convenience sample entailed 208 family caregivers in the quantitative and 36 in the qualitative aspect. The caregivers were women (n=178, 86%), aged 22-83 years, living with the elderly (n=169, 81%), with more than eight years of formal education (n=147, 71%), not having an occupation (n=121, 58%) and with mild burden (n=96, 46.

Prevalence of pre-frailty for the component of gait speed in older adults.

Objective: to investigate pre-frailty and the factors associated with this condition, taking into account the measurements of the older adults' gait speed.

Method: participants were selected by means of inclusion/exclusion criteria and a cognitive tracking test. The sample was calculated based on the estimation of populational proportion and made up of 195 older adults who were using a Primary Health-Care Center in Curitiba in the state of Paraná.

[Functional capacity in elderly longevity: an integrative review].

This is an integrated literature review intended to get to know the Brazilian scientific production regarding the functional capacity of the elderly. BDENF, LILACS, MEDLINE and SciELO databases were consulted in the sampling period from January, 2001, to September, 2010. Eight articles were selected with nursing professionals (4) as the main authors of such publications.

[The dissertations produced in the Graduate and Master's in Nursing Program at Universidade Federal do Paraná].

This descriptive, retrospective documental study was performed with the objective to analyze the dissertations produced in the Graduate and Master's in Nursing Program at Universidade Federal do Paraná, considering the adjustment of its lines of research. To do this, a critical reading was performed of the abstracts and thematic analysis was used to look at the dissertations and their inclusion in the lines of research, as well as the methods, approaches, subjects, location and research techniques used. A total 64 abstracts were analyzed from dissertations that were available online.