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How to Delineate the General Profiles of Functionality of Citizen’s Aged 65 Years and Old as a Function of Its Age

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Gerontechnology (IWoG 2019)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1185))

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Abstract

Objectives: A core set of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health codes was used, to ascertain the general profile of functionality as a function of biological and sociodemographic characteristics, notably the age of the citizens.

Methods: Data were collected by health professionals in the participants’ houses. The factorial validity of the construct was assessed by a confirmatory factor analysis. An ordinal regression model was built to identify the general profile of functionality as a function of age.

Results: It is expected that people under the age of 74 years will present no functional problems and that, after age 74, the most likely functionality problem will be a “MILD problem”.

Discussion: The functional profile of each elderly is interrelated with his or her sociodemographic context as well as with the overarching biological, cultural, and environmental characteristics of society. A progressive decrease in GPF occurs with age.

Conclusions: The evaluation of each person (even those with no perceived or incipient levels of functional impairment who are at risk of progressing to a more severe disability) about what are the factors that are related with this functional decline as people get older, allows identify the respective nursing interventions to be developed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge all the support given by all the health professional that collaborate during the data acquisition, especially when donning all the interviews to all the persons belonging to the sample, as well as the professional support given by primary health care teams of ULSBA (http://www.ulsba.min-saude.pt/).

Funding

This work was supported by 4IE project (0045-4IE-4-P) funded by the Interreg V-A España-Portugal (POCTEP) 2014-2020 program.

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  1. Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Beja, Portugal

    Maria Goes

  2. Escola Superior de Enfermagem de São João de Deus, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

    Manuel Lopes & César Fonseca

  3. Instituto de Telecomunicações, IST Torre Norte, Piso 10, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisbon, Portugal

    Henrique Oliveira

  4. Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Marôco

  5. Escola de Medicina Tradicional Chinesa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Margarida Santos

  6. Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas E Computadores, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

    José Caeiro

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Goes, M. et al. (2020). How to Delineate the General Profiles of Functionality of Citizen’s Aged 65 Years and Old as a Function of Its Age. In: García-Alonso, J., Fonseca, C. (eds) Gerontechnology. IWoG 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1185. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41494-8_33

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