INTRODUCTION Gambling Disorder (GD) in older adults is significantly increasing and became an important public health issue in different countries. However, little is known regarding GD in older adults. The prevalence and acceptance of gambling varies among different cultures and this raises the question of how and to what extent culture affects older gamblers. The majority of the important studies regarding GD in older adults have been conducted mainly in Anglo-Saxon cultures and little information is available regarding GD in other cultures. The objective of this paper is to perform the first standardized cross-cultural comparison regarding older adults presenting GD. METHODS The total studied sample involved 170 subjects: 89 from the Brazilian (BR) sample and 81 from the American (US) sample. It consisted of 67 men and 103, women (average age = 64.42, standard deviation = ±3,86). They were evaluated for socio-demographics, gambling behavior variables and psychiatric antecedents. RESULTS Overall, there were significant differences between BR and US older adults gamblers in marital status, onset of gambling activity, onset of GD and urge scores. DISCUSSION This study showed that there are important differences in gambling course, gambling behavior and personal antecedents between two samples of older adults presenting GD from countries with different social-cultural background. It weakens the possibility of generalization of results found in Anglo-Saxon countries to other cultures and reinforces for the need for development of research on GD in older adults outside the Anglo-Saxon culture.

Selective attention directs cognitive resources to relevant objects or events through either voluntary (top-down) or automatic (bottom-up) control. This paper analyzes voluntary and automatic orienting of attention during childhood development. Seventyfour children (6 to 10 years old) were asked to press a key in response to a visual target presented in a previously oriented position (voluntary orienting; Experiment 1) or after a peripheral unpredictable cue (automatic orienting; Experiment 2). A systematic reduction of reaction times was observed in older children in both experiments. For automatic orienting in Experiment 2, reaction times were shorter in the ipsilateral condition than in the contralateral condition. However, for older children, the differences in reaction times between these conditions decreased. This may be attributable to the appearance of Inhibition of Return as a result of the maturation of the attentional system derived from childhood development, which contributes to more effective exploration of the environment.

Identificação das variáveis-chave para a promoção do desenvolvimento local por meio da atividade turística no município de Corumbá/ MS/ Brasil: uma aplicação da Análise de SWOT

Corumbá is the largest Brazilian city to border with Bolivia and has a better health infrastructure than its neighbor country and, associated with the fact that Bolivia does not provide free services to all its residents, the city of Corumbá has attracted a significant flow of borderland population who seek local free health services, making it a scenario of coexistent behaviors and identities, mostly controversial ones. This article presents some reflections on empirical data from interviews with health professionals in Corumbá and aims to analyze the multiple borders recognized from these speeches. For that purpose, theoretic contributions are used, with geographical and anthropological supplementation, to understand the different border approaches extracted from the perspective of health professionals about the population that lives at the border and also about Integrated Border Health System-SIS-Fronteiras, a project created by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, in 2005. The information obtained from qualitative field research shows that the high level of permeability with the political border between Brazil and Bolivia has favored the construction of ethnic and cultural boundaries, in which the foreigner, especially the Bolivian, is the "other" in a social interaction among health professionals and users inside health units. And yet they reveal many challenges in implementing the SISFronteiras project in the border region, above all, health professional's lack of knowledge about the project and its objectives. ResumoCorumbá é o maior município brasileiro limítrofe com a Bolívia e está dotado de melhor infraestrutura de saúde que seu país vizinho e, aliado ao fato deste não dispor de serviços gratuitos a todos os seus habitantes, tem atraído um fluxo significativo de fronteiriços para atendimento ao serviço de saúde público, tornando-se palco de coexistência de comportamentos e identidades, muitas vezes controversos. Este trabalho apresenta algumas reflexões sobre os dados empíricos oriundos das entrevistas realizadas junto a profissionais de saúde atuantes em Corumbá e tem como objetivo analisar as múltiplas fronteiras reconhecidas a partir dos discursos proferidos por eles. Para tanto, faz-se uso de contribuições teóricas, com aportes geográficos e antropológicos, para compreender as diferentes abordagens de fronteira extraídas a partir da perspectiva dos agentes de saúde sobre o atendimento aos fronteiriços e também sobre o Sistema Integrado de Saúde das Fronteiras -SIS-Fronteiras, projeto criado pelo Ministério da Saúde do Brasil, em 2005. As informações obtidas a partir da pesquisa de campo, dotada de caráter qualitativo, evidenciam que o elevado grau de permeabilidade com a fronteira política entre Brasil-Bolívia tem favorecido a construção de fronteiras étnicas e culturais, em que o estrangeiro, especialmente o boliviano, é o "outro" na interação social entre profissional de saúde e usuário dentro das unidades de saúde. E ainda revelam inúmeros desafios na concretização do projeto SIS-Fronteir...

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