Analysis of the vaccination status of older adults.

Objective: To describe the sociodemographic characteristics, functional capacity and vaccination status of older adults, and to verify the factors associated with the incomplete vaccination status and the absence of the vaccination card.

Method: Cross-sectional and analytical study conducted with older adults living in the city of Uberaba (MG). The following analyzes were carried out: descriptive, bivariate and multinomial logistic regression (p<0.

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.

Frailty Syndrome in Association with Depressive Symptoms and Functional Disability among Hospitalized Elderly.

We sought to examine the frailty association with depression and functional disability in hospitalized older adults. In particular, we compared non-frail, pre-frail, and frail elderly hospitalized individuals. We performed a cross-sectional study with 255 hospitalized Brazilian elderly patients.

Cross-sectional study on the association between frailty and violence against community-dwelling elderly people in Brazil.

Background: The physical, emotional and cognitive limitations that may be present in the aging process, coupled with family unpreparedness, may lead to greater dependence among the elderly. This favors development of frailty syndrome and greater levels of violence against the elderly. The objective here was to analyze the association between violence against the elderly and frailty; and the geographic distribution of violence against the elderly according to the presence of frailty syndrome.

Frailty syndrome and socioeconomic and health characteristics among older adults.

Objective: To investigate the association of frailty syndrome with socioeconomic and health variables among older adults.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional, observational and analytical household research conducted with a sample of 1,609 urban elderly. We used: semi-structured questionnaire, scales (Katz, Lawton and shortened version of Geriatric Depression Scale) and Fragility Phenotype proposed by Fried.

Functional disability and morbidities among the elderly people, according to socio-demographic conditions and indicative of depression.

Objectives: To investigate the association of functional incapacity and the number of morbidities with sociodemographic, economic and health variables.

Methods: This is a household survey, quantitative and transversal approach, conducted with 1,693 elderly in Uberaba-MG in 2012. We used the Mini-Mental State Examination, Katz Scale, Lawton and Brody Scale; Geriatric Depression Scale abbreviated and semi-structured instrument for evaluation of demographic data, economic and morbidities.

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.

Quality of life and self-esteem among the elderly in the community.

This study sought to investigate the association between the scores for quality of life (QoL) and self-esteem among the elderly in an urban community. A cross-sectional, quantitative and analytical household survey was conducted with 1,691 elderly persons resident in an urban area in a county in Minas Gerais state. The World Health Organization Quality of Life BREF (WHOQOL-BREF), the World Health Organization Quality of Life OLD (WHOQOL-OLD) questionnaires and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were used in this study.

Quality of life and accession to the pharmacological treatment among elderly hypertensive.

Objective: to compare variables obtained in adherence and non-adherence to drug treatment for hypertension, according to socioeconomic situation, time of diagnosis, self-reported morbidities, indicative of depression and quality of life.

Method: cross-sectional analytical study of 524 elderly with adherence and 505 non-adherence to the treatment. A descriptive analysis, Chi-square test and Student t test (p < 0.

[Differences in the indicators of quality of life for older adults with hypertension living in urban and rural areas of Minas Gerais, Brazil].

Objectives: To compare socioeconomic, illnesses, and quality of life variables for older adults with arterial hypertension who are residents of urban and rural areas of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional study comprised of 1,302 older adults from the urban area and 463 from the rural area who reported suffering from arterial hypertension. Descriptive analysis was performed, as well as the chi square test, t-test, and multiple and logistic regression.

Quality of life of elderly. Comparison between urban and rural areas.

Objective: Comparing the scores of quality of life according to place of residence (urban and rural areas).

Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 2142 elderly in urban area and other 850 in rural area of the municipality of Uberaba (Minas Gerais, Brazil). Instruments used: Olders Americans Resources and Services, World Health Organization Quality of Life--BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) and World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment for Older Adults (WHOQOL-OLD).

[Prevalence and factors associated with the rates of depression among elderly residents in rural areas].

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of elderly patients with an indication of depression by sex and age group and to identify the factors associated with the indication of depression. Analytical, observational and cross studies were conducted with 850 elderly residents in the rural areas of the municipality of Minas Gerais. For data analysis, we applied the prevalence formula and logistic regression model (p<0.

[Morbidity and quality of life of elderly individuals with diabetes mellitus living in urban and rural areas].

This study aimed to describe the socio-demographic variables and to compare the morbidities and the quality of life (QoL) of elderly individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM) residing in urban and rural areas. The sample consisted of 271 elderly individuals from urban areas and 104 from rural areas with self-reported DM. A descriptive analysis was used, and in the location comparison, an age adjustment was employed through linear and logistic multiple regression models (p<0.