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Elderly people with limited mobility: their families and the implications of their dependency
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES. The family has su'ered several changes throughout the
times, leading to many elderly people living alone or with other elderly. In a family
the situation of the elderly that depended on others can compromise the family’s
relationships, which leads to little availability to motivate them to mobilization. The
objective of the study was to understand the way the family functions in view of to
the dependence of the elderly with limited mobility in a community context.
METHODOLOGY. Descriptive study, exploratory of a quantitive character. The data was
gathered through a questionnaire, including the Lawton & Brody (1969) scales,
the lifestyle pro+le (Nahas, 2013) and the familiar APGAR (Smilkstein, 1978). Nonprobabilistic
sample, composed by 1298 elderly with limited mobility, from 26 civil
parishes from the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Most of the people polled considered that his own family
was a functional one (64.8%) and 49.6% were moderately dependent. By analysing
the physical activity lifestyle pro+le and the familiar functionality one could conclude
that 65.2% had a positive pro+le, presenting typical behaviours of an active
lifestyle. We think that the fact that 73.1% are inserted in functional families had
something to do with it. We have veri+ed a perfect association (p = 0.000) between
dependency, lifestyle physical activity and familiar functionality – APGAR.
CONCLUSIONS: The results show that the family determines the lifestyle physical activity
and the elderly’s dependency. A functional family in<uences a positive physical
activity pro+le, even in the elderly with limited mobility.
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Elderly Mobility Family Nursing
Citation
Dinis Pimenta SE, Martins MM, Monteiro C, Reis Santos M, Martinho J. Elderly people with limited mobility: their families and the implications of their dependency. Suplemento Digital Rev ROL Enferm 2018; 41(11-12)