Ageing, solidarity and social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean: time for progress towards equality

Includes bibliography

Women's contribution to equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Ageing and the protection of human rights: Current situation and outlook

Includes Bibliography

Innovations in health care services: The CAALYX system

Purpose: This paper describes proposed health care services innovations, provided by a system called CAALYX (Complete Ambient Assisted Living eXperiment). CAALYX aimed to provide healthcare innovation by extending the state-of-the-art in tele-healthcare, by focusing on increasing the confidence of elderly people living autonomously, by building on the knowledge base of the most common disorders and respective characteristic vital sign changes for this age group. Methods: A review of the state-of-the-art on health care services was carried out. Then, extensive research was conducted on the particular needs of the elderly in relation to home health services that, if offered to them, could improve their day life by giving them greater confidence and autonomy. To achieve this, we addressed issues associated with the gathering of clinical data and interpretation of these data, as well as possibilities of automatically triggering appropriate clinical measures. Considering this initial work we started the identification of initiatives, ongoing works and technologies that could be used for the development of the system. After that, the implementation of CAALYX was done. Findings: The innovation in CAALYX system considers three main areas of contribution: (i) The Roaming Monitoring System that is used to collect information on the well-being of the elderly users; (ii) The Home Monitoring System that is aimed at helping the elders independently living at home being implemented by a device (a personal computer or a set top box) that supports the connection of sensors and video cameras that may be used for monitoring and for interaction with the elder; (iii) The Central Care Service and Monitoring System that is implemented by a Caretaker System where attention and care services are provided to elders, where actors as Caretakers, Doctors and Relatives are logically linked to elders. Innovations in each of these areas are presented here. Conclusions: The ageing European society is placing an added burden on future generations, as the 'elderly-to-working-age-people' ratio is set to steadily increase in the future. Nowadays, quality of life and fitness allows for most older persons to have an active life well into their eighties. Furthermore, many older persons prefer to live in their own house and choose their own lifestyle. The CAALYX system can have a clear impact in increasing older persons' autonomy, by ensuring that they do not need to leave their preferred environment in order to be properly monitored and taken care of. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Population, ageing and development

Includes bibliography

Review of the implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action in the Caribbean (1994-2004): achievements and constraints

Includes bibliography

Influência do treinamento físico combinado na função diastólica do ventrículo esquerdo de idosos com hipertensão arterial controlada

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Caracterização da educação em saúde dos cuidadores formais em institutições de longa permanência para idosos de Botucatu-SP

Pós-graduação em Enfermagem (mestrado profissional) - FMB

Situation of unpaid work and gender in the Caribbean: The measurement of unpaid work through time-use studies

Includes bibliography.

Ageing and Development Newsletter No. 5

Special Edition Brasilia 2007. Society for all ages and social protection in the old age. ECLAC: The challenges of the next half-decade. Demographic transition in the region: A rapid and heterogeneous ageing process. Situation of older persons: Income, health, environments and the public responses.

Associação entre a qualidade de vida e aspectos nutricionais na terceira idade

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Population ageing in the Caribbean: An inventory of policies, programmes and future challenges

“We must be fully aware that while the developed countries became rich before they became old, the developing countries will become old before they become rich”. This statement made by Gro Harlem Brundtland, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, at the World Assembly on Ageing in 2002 in Madrid, reflects the challenges that the developing world is facing in the twentieth century. Population ageing is a global phenomenon, which is having and will have major implications on all aspects of human life in every society. This process is enduring and irreversible, as observed from differing patterns and distinct paces in various regions and countries all over the world. The United Nations has undertaken various efforts to repeatedly draw governments’ attention to the growing demand for answers to these encompassing and profound demographic changes. Various initiatives on the global as well as on the regional and subregional level have been undertaken to highlight the pressing need for concerted action. Of importance in this regard are the numerous agreements reached at the global conferences on social development, population and women orchestrated by the United Nations in the 1990s, which all refer to ageing as an issue of particular concern. The year 1999 was proclaimed by the General Assembly1 of the United Nations as the Year of Older Persons to recognize ageing as one of the major achievements but, at the same time, as one of the major challenges all populations have to cope with in the twentieth century. This continuous call for action culminated in the Second World Assembly on Ageing, which was held in Madrid 2002, where governments agreed to the implementation of a global action plan. This new Plan of Action focuses both on political priorities such as improvements in living conditions of older persons, combating poverty, social inclusion, individual self-fulfilment, human rights and gender equality. To an increasing degree attention is also devoted to such holistic and overarching themes as intergenerational solidarity, employment, social security, health and well-being. Mandated by the Second World Assembly on Ageing, the Population Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CELADE) has convened the Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in November 2003 in Santiago, where a regional strategy for the implementation (ECLAC, 2003b) of the commitments reached in Madrid has been adopted. Further, a background document (ECLAC 2003a) on the situation of the elderly in the Latin American and Caribbean region, of which this document is a substantive part, has been presented to the meeting. Participating government officials formally committed themselves to work on a national follow-up strategy and to report on the progress made in the implementation of their commitments to the Ad hoc Committee on Population and Development to be convened in 2004.

Densidade mineral óssea de adolescentes saudáveis do sexo feminino

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Saúde mental no cotidiano da formação em enfermagem: modo-de-ser-docente

Pesquisa qualitativa de abordagem Fenomenológica, que utilizou como referencial teórico-metodológico a filosofia de Martin Heidegger expressa em sua obra Ser e Tempo. Estudo realizado na Faculdade de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Pará no segundo semestre de 2013 e teve como objetivo revelar os sentidos e sentimentos que os docentes enfermeiros do segundo e do terceiro semestres do curso de graduação em enfermagem da UFPA expressam sobre a saúde mental no cotidiano de ser docente. Participaram dessa pesquisa nove enfermeiros docentes das atividades curriculares Introdução a Enfermagem (3) Atenção Integral a Saúde da Mulher, Criança e Adolescente (2), Atenção Integral a Saúde do Idoso (2), Processo Educativo I (1) e Exercício Profissional (1). O expresso pelos docentes foi captado por meio da entrevista fenomenológica agendada com cada docente e analisado pela instância ôntica que diz respeito à compreensão vaga e mediana. Cinco Unidades de Significados emergiram: US1 – saúde mental é fenômeno natural que se manifesta na liberdade para o modo de ser e estar com o outro numa relação equilibrada. US2 – a significação da saúde mental como essência das experiências vividas manifestada na possibilidade de acesso às coisas do mundo. US3 – saúde mental revela-se no cotidiano da prática em enfermagem nas diferentes fases da vida numa ocupação simplesmente dada. US4 – saúde mental manifestada no processo de formação como acontecimento secundário. US5 – o modo de ser docente em sua experiência de vida influencia as relações com o outro no processo de formação. O revelado no estudo, por meio do que foi falado, percebido e vivido, expressa que a preocupação com a saúde mental é um acontecimento, no entanto esta não se constitui como possibilidades, ou seja, não há uma ocupação antecipada da saúde mental como conteúdo formal desta ou daquela Atividade Curricular. É possível que o docente em seu modo de ser possa abrir-se ao novo, lançar-se no mundo e promover mudanças no cotidiano da formação de enfermeiros, ocupando-se da saúde mental, pois mesmo sem o conteúdo presente nos planos de ensino há o reconhecimento de sua existência e de sua importância na temporalidade da vida das pessoas.

Cuidado ao paciente idoso hospitalizado: implicações para a equipe de enfermagem

The Brazilian population is ageing rapidly, and chronic diseases have increased. Due to deficient health care services, the diagnosis and treatment of such diseases occur in the tertiary level, which increases costs and reduces the possibilities of early diagnoses. In view of the elderly population‟s increase and of the great demand at hospitalization units, it is important to learn about the difficulties and facilities faced by nursing teams when giving care to hospitalized individuals. In order to reach the objectives, a cross-sectional, prospective, descriptive, analytical and qualitative study was performed with basis on Bardin‟s Content Analysis. Among the difficulties were patients‟ limitations, dependence level, behaviors and habits, interference from companions, feeling of abandonment, perception of needs, dealing with suffering and lack of time for adequate care. As to facilities, acceptance of the disease, adherence to treatment, collaboration, trust in the team, and older patients‟ politeness were reported, which shows that passiveness is an important indicator in caring for the elderly. Older individuals suffer the outcomes of certain physical, psychological and mental deficits. When facing disease conditions, they require special care, including hospitalization and greater attention. The nursing team provides daily care and follows patients‟ development; however, its members are still not knowledgeable enough about the ageing process. This contributes to increase prejudice and erroneous stereotypes about older persons. Therefore, not understanding such process compromises the full care to be provided to older patients. This leads team members to accelerate the care provision process in order to meet the daily work demand, thus compromising older patients‟ autonomy and making them more dependent on the team, whereas the process should follow the opposite path