Mortality of elderly people in home care according to frailty and functional capacity
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Mortality, Frail Elderly, Primary Health Care, Health of the Elderly, Home Care ServicesAbstract
Objective: to analyze mortality rates among elderly people in type 1 Home Care according to the functional capacity and frailty, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: longitudinal study. Phase 1 was developed between 2018 and 2019, at a home, with 124 elderly people, including sociodemographic data, Edmonton Frail Scale, Lawton and Brody Scale and Barthel index. Phase 2 occurred via telephone contact, between 2021 and 2022. The analyses were descriptive and inferential, using the chi-square test. Results: among the elderly people who died, 67.3% had moderate or severe frailty, exhibiting moderate dependence in Basic Activities of Daily Living, with an average of 47 (± 31.6), and great severe dependence in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, with an average of 13.2 (± 4.6), when compared to survivors. Conclusion: elderly people who were more frail and had lower functional capacity had a higher mortality rate.
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