Capacidade funcional de idosos longevos: associação com o perfil epidemiológico

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Amorim, Diane Nogueira Paranhos
• Orientador(a): Vilaça, Karla Helena Coelho
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Católica de Brasília
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa Strictu Sensu em Gerontologia
• Departamento: Escola de Saúde e Medicina
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Idosos; Longevidade; Gerontologia; Capacidade funcional
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE
• Link de acesso: https://bdtd.ucb.br:8443/jspui/handle/tede/2183

Population aging in Brazil and in the world has revealed, in recent years, the growth of the elderly aged ≥80 years old, the oldest old. The increase in the population of the oldest old entailed a new epidemiological scenario, characterized by multiple chronic diseases, morbidity and functional dependence. The objective of this research was to associate the epidemiological profile with the functional capacity of the oldest old. This is a cross-sectional study, carried out in the city of Teresina-Piauí, at two Basic Health Units (BHU). The sample was composed by 103 elderly males and females, with 80 years or more, enrolled in the BHU and with cognitive capacity preserved. The data collection was performed by means of application of the questionnaire with sociodemographic and epidemiological information. For assessment of the functional capacity, we used the Katz Índex, Lawton and Brody Scale and the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB). The sociodemographic data and epidemiological data were analyzed by simple descriptive statistics. The Chi-square test and the Spearman correlation test was applied. Among the oldest old, 40.8% were dependent partial, and 2.9% were dependent on the full realization of the basic activities of daily life (BADL); 97.1% were partial dependents, 1.9% were dependent in full for instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), and 24.3% were dependent on the functional mobility. Functional capacity was associated to the use of assistive walking devices, the use of three or more medications, the consumption of alcoholic beverage, the use of prosthesis in hip or knee, diabetes, arthropathies and osteoporosis and, more significantly, to the fear of falling. The fear of falling was the only variable that was associated with BADL, IADL and functional mobility. In conclusion, there was a higher prevalence of independence in the performance of the BADL, dependence for the IADL and low performance in functional mobility. The fear of falling was the variable that showed the most significant association with functional capacity.