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.

Factors associated with the occurrence of falls among older people with and without cataracts: Structural equation modelling analysis.

Aims And Objectives: To identify the frequency of falls among older people with and without cataracts and to verify the association of sociodemographic, clinical and behavioural variables with the number of falls among community-dwelling older adults according to self-reported cataracts.

Background: Although the literature on the topic is vast, no studies were found that described the explanatory factors for the relationship between sociodemographic, clinical and behavioural variables with the occurrence of falls in older people, with and without cataracts, through models previously tested in mediation analysis.

Design And Method: This is a cross-sectional and quantitative study guided by the STROBE, conducted with two groups: older people with (268) and without cataracts (689).