Condições de saúde e direitos de idosos em João Pessoa-PB

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Henriques, Gerlena Maria Navarro Ribeiro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; Brasil; Ciências da Nutrição; Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências da Nutrição; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Saúde do Idoso; Direito à Saúde; Avaliação Nutricional; Atividades de lazer; Health of the Elderly; Right to Health; Nutritional Assessment; Leisure activities; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4278

The rapid increase in life expectancy all over the world, including Brazil, has generated concerns and challenges to be faced in economics, socials and public politics aspects to achieve the goal of healthy aging, quality of life where the elderly have their rights fully respected and guaranteed. Within this perspective, the objective of this study was to analyze the health of an aging population, describing their socioeconomic aspects, identifying the main diseases that affect, assessing their nutritional status and checking the knowledge of older people of their rights guaranteed by law, through the Elderly Statute. The cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted with 296 elderly people aged from 60 years in two Health Units Family of João Pessoa. As research tools were used: 1) Application of a structured interview with questions including: Identification, Habits and Lifestyles, State Health-Disease, Knowledge of the Elderly Statute, 2) Application of the Questionnaire used by the National Food and Nutrition (PNAN) and 3) Collection of anthropometric data of elderly respondents. The associations were performed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and Fisher's exact test, using significance level of p <0,05. Most of the elderly respondents in the two units (65,2%) were females. The mean age was 70,8 ± 7,7 years old and frequency of elderly retirees was 62,8%, being 26% of this population illiterate. The average per capita income calculated on a monthly salary stood at 454,76 ± 419,51 reais. The frequency of elderly with caregivers was 17,9%. This fact shows that most of these seniors enrolled in the study performed daily activities independently. Regarding the nutritional status, the frequency found of eutrophic was 40,9% and 23,3% of obesity. The mean BMI was 26,91 ± 4,9 at. It was observed a frequency of 56,1% to very high risk for cardiovascular disease, related the cutoff point obtained from the Waist-Hip Ratio. Regarding the diseases most frequently identified in this population, there was obtained a frequency of 82,1% of hypertension, diabetes mellitus followed with a frequency of 29,1%. Most of the elderly (68,6%) only sought health services when needed. Despite the respondents recognize their rights considering positive responses in most of the questions asked on the basis of the Elderly Statute, only 39,9% of them knew that these rights were guaranteed by law and were included in the Statute. The associations between the positive fact of the elderly have some type of leisure activity, with issues relating to their rights, resulted in statistically significant greater than those performed with the variables sex, color, age, monthly income, which highlights the importance of social integration as a factor in promoting citizenship in the elderly. Therefore, this study confirmed the importance of increasing investments in the deployment of public health politics that not only act directly on disease prevention and health promotion, but that increases the degree of knowledge of this age group about their rights as how to improve their quality of life.