The objective of this study was to identify the relationship between social support and the functional capacity of elderly persons with cognitive alterations. It is a descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative study. The subjects were 101 elderly persons registered in Family Health Centers whose performance in the Mini-Exam for Mental Status was below a certain specified level in a previous ...

The differential diagnosis of Parkinsonism based on clinical features, sometimes may be difficult. Diagnostic tests in these cases might be useful, especially magnetic resonance imaging, a noninvasive exam, not as expensive as positron emission tomography, and provides a good basis for anatomical analysis. The magnetic resonance spectroscopy analyzes cerebral metabolism, yielding inconsistent r...

High-risk elderly are who reach age (> 70 years). As you get older, the status of cognitive function decreases and also quality life. Good, bad can be seen from aspects orientation, language, attention, memory, construction, calculation, reasoning. Cognitive will potentially affect life in terms physical, psychological, social environmental indicators. The purpose this study was to determine...

background: multidimensional fatigue syndrome (mfs) is referred to as extreme inability accompanied by decline in physical functional capacity and impairment of intellectual function, such as loss of concentration. elderly people are more prone to mfs comparing to other age groups. it is expected that adequacy of dialysis affect the process of mfs among patients under dialysis. the purpose of t...

A large body of preclinical as well as some retrospective clinical evidence suggest that exposure to general anesthesia could be detrimental to cognitive development in young subjects, and might also contribute to accelerated cognitive decline in the elderly. Though general anesthetics have now been used clinically for well over a century, both their mechanisms of action as well as the nature o...