The association between the functional incapacity of the older adult and the family caregiver's burden

OBJECTIVE: to identify the association between the older adult's functional capacity and the caregiver's burden. METHOD: a cross-sectional, quantitative study, undertaken in a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Paraná, with 178 older adults with functional incapacity,...

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Main Authors: Edileuza de Fatima Rosina Nardi, Namie Okino Sawada, Jair Licio Ferreira Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2013-09-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692013000501096&lng=en&tlng=en