Indicadores de incapacidade funcional e fatores associados em idosos: estudo de base populacional em Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul

Juliana Damasceno Nunes, Mirelle de Oliveira Saes, Bruno Pereira Nunes, Fernando Carlos Vinholes Siqueira, Deisi Cardoso Soares, Maria Elizabeth Gastal Fassa, Elaine Thumé, Luiz Augusto Facchini, Juliana Damasceno Nunes, Mirelle de Oliveira Saes, Bruno Pereira Nunes, Fernando Carlos Vinholes Siqueira, Deisi Cardoso Soares, Maria Elizabeth Gastal Fassa, Elaine Thumé, Luiz Augusto Facchini

to estimate the prevalence of functional disability in basic and instrumental daily activities and associated factors in elderly who live in the urban area of Bagé-RS, Brazil. this is a population-based cross-sectional study, conducted in 2008; functional disability was defined by basic and instrumental daily activities, using Katz index and Lawton and Brody scale; Poisson regression was used for crude and adjusted analyses. 1,593 elderly individuals were investigated; the prevalence of disability for basic activities was of 10.6% (95%CI: 9.1;12.1) and of 34.2% (95%CI: 31.9;36.6) for instrumental activities; both disabilities were statistically associated to the increment of age, low education level, alcohol consumption, history of cerebrovascular diseases, cognitive impairment, hospitalization and home care. a high proportion of elderly presented functional disability; the outcomes were associated to the following variables: demographic, socioeconomic, behavioral, health status and use of health services.