Alessandro Ferrari Jacinto

• Abstract

  O "Global Index Report" 2015) indica que o Reino Unido e o Brasil estão enfrentando um envelhecimento da população. (http://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/). No Brasil, existem 24,4 milhões de pessoas com mais de 60 anos (11,7% da população) e no Reino Unido, 14,9 milhões (23% da população total), sendo que estes números deverão aumentar em 2030/2050. Semelhante ao Reino Unido, o Brasil…

  Comparative dialogues between Brazilian and UK healthcare professionals for the care of the older person, AV.EXT
• Identifying and addressing shared challenges in conducting health and social care research for older people (OPAL) | Botucatu - SP, AO.R

• Abstract

  In many countries throughout the world, populations are ageing. Currently, in Brazil, there are 29 million (14.3%) people aged at least 60 years and this is set to increase to 65 million in 2050. In Australia, approximately 15% of the population was aged 65 years or older in 2016, numbering 3.7 million people. By 2056, it is projected that 22% of the population (8.7 million people) will b…

  Developing a process to screen for health literacy in family caregivers of older people and refining a support intervention for use with caregivers experiencing low levels of health literacy, AP.R SPRINT

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  The prevalence of dementia has increased in Brazil in the last three decades. Dementia occurs due to changes in cognitive domains with serious consequences for the functioning of the person, which generate dependence to perform basic activities of daily living and total loss of autonomy. In recent decades many researchers have encouraged the realization of cognitive screening with several…

  Knowledge and attitudes towards dementia among general practitioners of the basic health system, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Global companies have gone through a transition process in the age structure, characterized mainly by the aging population. In Brazil, during the past two decades, life expectancy increased by 7.6 years and older now represent 10.8% of the population in 2012. This process raised the incidence of several diseases, including dementia. In Brazil, due to the increase of the morbidities relate…

  Delirium in a sample of elderly inpatients: factors associated with the occurrence of delirium and mortality within a period of one year after the episode of delirium, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Population ageing is a global phenomenon. According to Carvalho & Garcia (2003), the current scenario of the Brazilian population has changed, because it used to have a predominantly young population and, with the decline in fertility, the annual growth rate in the number of births declined, which started a continuous process of narrowing the base of the age pyramid, therefore, of an agei…

  Common mental health disorder in caregivers of elders with dementia, BP.IC