ResumoMudanças recentes ao nível dos serviços de saúde resultaram em internamentos mais curtos nos hospitais e na procura de substitutos para cuidar dos doentes, levando a que as famílias assumissem frequentemente esses cuidados. Quality of life, burden, social support, marital adjustment and psychological morbidity in caregivers of elders with functional dependence AbstractChanges in medical practice resulted in shorter hospitalization and in the search for substitute caregivers leading families to assume care. Family members who become caregivers need to deal with changes in their lives on several levels, particularly when caregiving falls upon a dependent family member. This study focused on the implications of caregiving on burden, life activities, quality of life, satisfaction with social support, dyadic adjustment, depression and anxiety. 109 informal caregivers of functionally dependent elders participated in the study. The instruments used were: Barthel Index, Zarit Burden Interview, WHOQOL-BREF, Satisfaction with Social Support Scale, Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale, Beck Depression Inventory and State Trait Anxiety Inventory. The results revealed that quality of life was inversely related with burden and psychological morbidity and positively with satisfaction with friends. Burden and quality of life were correlated with social support. In turn, marital adjustment was found to be a moderator in the relationship between depression and quality of life (physical and psychological dimensions) but not between burden and quality of life. Caregivers that were partners of those they cared for showed lower quality of life and adult children caregivers

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ResumoEste trabalho pretende abordar os processos relacionados com a transformação do território em que se implantou a cidade romana de Bracara Augusta, tendo em vista estabelecer uma articulação entre o âm-bito urbano e a nova paisagem rural que emerge da integração desta região no Império romano. Para o efeito, abordaremos o contexto da ocupação pré-romana da região em que se implantou a cidade, o contexto da sua fundação e as características principais do seu urbanismo, procedendo-se, finalmente, a uma valorização dos novos sítios e achados que ajudam a definir a presença romana no território rural envolvente, com destaque para a rede viária principal, para as necrópoles e para os vestígios de povoamento. A nossa atenção centrar-se-á, de seguida, nos dados referentes à análise do parcelamento rural romano que marcou uma profunda transformação da paisagem e da ocupação do território. AbstractThis study addresses the processes related to the transformation of the territory in which the Roman city of Bracara Augusta was founded, in order to establish an interaction between the urban context and the new rural landscape that emerged from the integration of this region into the Roman Empire. This paper will discuss the context of pre-Roman occupation in which the city developed, the context of its foundation and the key features of its urban planning, proceeding finally to an appreciation of the new sites and findings that help us to define the Roman presence in the surrounding rural area, with an emphasis on the main road network, cemeteries and settlement remains. It will then focus on data associated with the analysis of the roman rural centuriation that marked a profound change of the landscape and occupation of the territory.

This article describes a project that aims to develop a system that provides people in wheelchair a relief to the level of the sensitive perception of discomfort, assuring greater independence, welfare, quality of life and the prevention of illnesses/wounds. The project is based on the development of textile and polymer applications (cushions, mattresses and mattresses overlays) with functions of pressure and humidity monitoring in the body's areas contacting with the support surfaces. The same principle used in this work can be applied to other situations, such as people with serious motor function limitations that condition their mobility and/or deambulation, bed rest patients or patients under effect of sedatives or anesthesia during long surgeries (intra and post operative).

Este trabalho pretende analisar o processo de fundação de Bracara Augusta relacionado com a estruturação do espaço urbano e com a reorganização do território rural, usando para o efeito o vasto acervo de dados fornecidos pela arqueologia das últimas décadas. Para além da análise do contexto pré-romano, serão analisados os dados disponíveis sobre a malha urbana fundacional, bem como aqueles que se articulam com a reorganização do povoamento no território envolvente da cidade. Pretende-se igualmente refletir sobre o papel desempenhado por Bracara Augusta na evolução das comunidades indígenas da região bracarense, decorrente da sua integração no Império e da reorganização da Hispânia empreendida por Augusto.