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ORIGINAL ARTICLE11-12-2022
Relationship between physical activity and functional capacity change in aged cohort in São Paulo, Brazil
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2022;75(3):e20200837
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLERelationship between physical activity and functional capacity change in aged cohort in São Paulo, Brazil
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2022;75(3):e20200837
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0837
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Objectives:
to evaluate the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and functional capacity change among aged people.
Methods:
we analyzed data of an aged cohort looking for determinants of functional capacity at follow-up. Baseline data were collected between 2007 and 2008 - average follow-up of 3,5 years. A full multivariate linear regression model was built to evaluate functional capacity at the end of the follow-up, controlling for functional capacity at baseline, sociodemographic, health and behavioral characteristics and amount of leisure-time physical activity in the period.
Results:
final model showed functional capacity independently correlated with age (p<0.001), body mass (p=0.013) and the number of activities of daily living compromised at baseline (p<0.001). Functional capacity improved with increased physical activity but loss statistical significance after adjustments (p=0.384).
Conclusions:
functional capacity decreases with increased age, increased loss of functional capacity at baseline and increased body mass. Albeit a non-significant association, leisure-time physical activity appears as an important modifiable factor.
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REFLECTION01-01-2017
Transcendence, historicity and temporality of being elderly: nursing reflection-using Heidegger
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2017;70(4):891-895
Abstract
REFLECTIONTranscendence, historicity and temporality of being elderly: nursing reflection-using Heidegger
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2017;70(4):891-895
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0275
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The objective is to reflect on historicity and temporality as paths for the transcendence of being elderly, based on the phenomenological concepts of Martin Heiddeger. A review of the concepts of transcendence, historicity and temporality was carried out in the work of Martín Heidegger, integrating them in the perspective of nursing for the elderly. The transcendence of the elderly adult is feasible by accessing the temporality of self in the path of its historicity to arrive at the understanding of itself that he has achieved: transcending, which is but a process of the Being itself. Being is time in itself existing in the world, existence given by the encounter of the past (to have been), present and future (becoming), the same encounter that determines the historicity of the Being. The encounter has been consummated and the Being is transcendence, with the understanding of the Being itself as a supreme point.