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- Title
WHAT TAKEN THE ELDERLY PEOPLE TO INSTITUTIONALIZATION?
- Authors
Moura Lopes, Valderina; Tavares dos Santos Scofield, Allyny Mobley; Lopes de Alcântara, Renata Kelly; Cavalcante Fernandes, Bruna Karen; Pedrosa Leite, Saul Filipe; Borges, Cíntia Lira
- Abstract
Objective: to describe the main reasons that led the elderly people to institutionalization. Method: this is a quantitative, cross-sectional study carried out in a long-term institution for the elderly by 219 medical records, using a questionnaire. For the association of continuous and categorical variables, the Kruskal-Wallis tests and Pearson's Chi-Square test were used considering p <0.05, presented in a table. Results: in total, 55.6% were female elderly, with a mean age of 77 years old (± 0.55). The main reasons were self-will, family issues, abandonment, and violence. The variables most related to the reasons for institutionalization were gender (p=0.013), marital status (p=0.041), company at home (p=0.001), receiving visits (p=0.011) and degree of dependency (p=<0.001). The determining causes that have led the elderly person to join a long-term institution were highlighted to the search for prior social actions and strategies, prior to institutionalization, in order to avoid their occurrence, overcrowding and the high costs in these establishments. Conclusion: it was observed that all the elderly person, regardless of the reason, were exposed to negative clinical and social outcomes.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ELDER care; GERIATRIC assessment; CHI-squared test; INSTITUTIONAL care; LIFE skills; LONG-term health care; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENT-family relations; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; QUANTITATIVE research; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; SENIOR housing; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; PATIENT decision making
- Publication
Journal of Nursing UFPE / Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 9, p2428
- ISSN
1981-8963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5205/1981-8963-v12i9a234624p2428-2435-2018