Home fall of elderly people: implications of stressors and representations in the COVID-19 context

ABSTRACT Objectives To describe personal conditions and home structure that predisposes the elderly to the risk of falling, in the perspective of Neuman’s stressors; to describe the content, structure and origin of social representations about falling at home by elderly people; and conjecture the i...

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Main Authors: Jéssica de Castro Santos, Cristina Arreguy-Senna, Paulo Ferreira Pinto, Elenir Pereira de Paiva, Pedro Miguel dos Santos Dinis Parreira, Marcos Antônio Gomes Brandão
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021-05-01
Series:Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1983-14472021000200411&tlng=en