Qualidade de vida em idosos com doenças neurológicas

Abstract

Population aging is associated with a high rate of comorbidities. Among them, one of the most impactful is neurological diseases. Because, they result in sequelae that have great implications for quality of life (QOL). Objective: To identify what the QoL looks like in elderly people with neurological diseases. Methods: Cross-sectional study, carried out at the Dr. Henrique Santillo State Rehabilitation and Readaptation Center (CRER), located in Goiânia, Goiás. The sample by elderly people with neurological diseases, with at least six months of injury, both sexes, equal age or older than 60 years, be in service in the CRER rehabilitation sectors. The Mini Mental State Examination was used to assess cognitive ability and, consequently, the ability to answer the QOL questionnaire. The instrument used to assess QOL was the World Health Organization Quality Of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-OLD). Results: Eleven elderly people with the following diseases were evaluated: Cerebral Stroke (CVA), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Spinal Cord Injury, Parkinson's and Polyneuropathy. In general, the patients evaluated had a total QOL considered to be regular. The patient with the best total QOL performance was the one with TBI, since the one who had the worst performance was one of the patients with stroke. Conclusion: This study was able to evaluate patients with different neurological diseases, all over the age of 60 years and most of them male. In general, patients had a total mean QOL considered to be regular.