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Functional capacity and life expectancy in elderly quilombolas
Valéria Raissa Oliveira da Silva1, Rejane Santos da Cunha2, José Luís da Cunha Pena1
1Universidade Federal do Amapá. Macapá, Amapá, Brazil.
Objective:
To evaluate the relationship between functional capacity and life expectancy of quilombola elders.
Method:
A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study involving fifty-nine older adults from the quilombola community of Curiaú, Macapá-Amapá. A sociodemographic form was used to characterize the sample, and Lawton's and Herth's Hope Scales were used to measuring functional capacity and life expectancy, respectively. In the relationship study, the Spearman correlation test was applied.
Results:
Elderly males aged 60-69 years (52.5%) and married (35.6%) prevailed. Functional capacity had a mean score of 22.4 (± 4.6) and a life expectancy of 41.5 (± 5.1), the correlation between the scale scores was positive and significant (R = 0.475; p <0.001).
Conclusion:
From the results concluded, when related levels of independence and life expectancy among themselves were significantly associated with being functionally independent elderly and having a better life expectancy.
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