Risk factors for falls among elderly: integrative review of literature from diagnosis of nursing NANDA / Fatores de risco para quedas em idosos: revisão integrativa da literatura a partir do diagnóstico de enfermagem da NANDA

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

22/02/2011

RESUMO

Falls among the elderly pose a major problem in public health. Thus, the following study, founded in a project of Universal Project 2008, aimed: to analyze the scientific production regarding the risk factors for falls, in the elderly population, both in Brazilian and foreign scientific literature within the last five years. The methodology applied was the integrative review, carried out in five stages: problem formulation; data collection; data assessment; data analysis and interpretation; and data presentation. For data collection, the following descriptors were used: fall accident and elderly, in the database of CINAHL and LILACS, where six hundred and thirty-seven studies were retrieved, from which thirty-two were selected for analysis of content. The results were presented taking into account: data related to the articles and relevant data to the research- risk factors indicated in NANDA-I. After data analysis, the following categories for risk factors emerged: environmental: environment with furniture and objects/rugs scattered around the floor, poor lighting, climatic conditions-slippery floor; cognitive: lowered mental state; In adults: history of falls, over 65 years of age, use of aid devices; physiological: marching difficulties, impaired vision, loss of balance, incontinence, neoplasia; medications. Understandably, by identifying the risk factors for falls among elderly there is a growing need for the development of alternatives and strategies to enable improvement in the environment as well as intrinsic components, open to alterations. Therefore, it is expected that this research and the following proposals of intervention which come up from it, may be an interconnection between the health services and the Academy, in order to promote improvements in the care of the elderly.

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acidentes por quedas idoso enfermagem fatores de risco enfermagem accidental falls aged nursing risk factors

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