2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2010.11.001
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Influence of socio-demographic, clinical and functional factors on the severity of dementia

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“…The socio-demographics of the people with dementia were in agreement with previous studies, illustrating the predominance of people over 85 years old [33,34], female, widows, with low level of education [27,[35][36][37] and living in the long-term care facility from 2 to 4 years [34]. Alzheimer's disease was the most prevalent type of dementia.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
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“…The socio-demographics of the people with dementia were in agreement with previous studies, illustrating the predominance of people over 85 years old [33,34], female, widows, with low level of education [27,[35][36][37] and living in the long-term care facility from 2 to 4 years [34]. Alzheimer's disease was the most prevalent type of dementia.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…Furthermore, four factors were associated with these [46,47]. Furthermore, lower scores are also associated with the natural course of dementia [35,36,45]. Therefore, it is expected that people who have been living longer in long-term care facilities present lower MMSE scores, explaining the findings of this study.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 70%
“…Dentre os mais utilizados foram identificados seis instrumentos; o número de estudos em que foram utilizados e os países nos quais foram produzidos estão apresentados na Tabela 1. Lawton e Brody apareceu, foi mais utilizada quando eram feitas associações e verificação do efeito de fatores comumente avaliados em idosos com demência em relação à funcionalidade, como os sintomas neuropsiquiátricos, a depressão, variáveis clínicas e sobrecarga de cuidadores [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] . Os demais estudos utilizaram a escala em contextos diversos, que abordavam o efeito de medicamentos na funcionalidade de idosos 24 , a acurácia de escalas de avaliação de AVD em idosos com demência da doença de Parkinson 25 , a validação de outras escalas 26,27 , a influência do espaço arquitetônico nas AVD 28 e, ainda, a capacidade diagnóstica para demências do instrumento em questão 29 .…”
Section: Resultsunclassified
“…The Katz' instrument is widely used [29][30][31][32][33][34] , but methods of analysis vary. In its basic form, Katz' is a hierarchic scale in which the loss of six ADL functions follows a specific order, leading to assignment of a cumulative Katz' stage from A to G (A ¼ no loss; B ¼ bathing,…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%