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Original Articles
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981-22562018021.180089
Disability relating to instrumental activities of daily living in the elderly with rheumatic diseases
570 Priscila Maria Stolses Bergamo Francisco1 Priscila de Paula Marques¹ Flávia Silva Arbex Borim¹ Sarina Francescato Torres¹ Anita Liberalesso Neri¹
Abstract Objective: to characterize the sociodemographic profile of elderly persons with arthritis/ rheumatism in relation to gender, as well as to estimate the prevalence and factors associated with functional disability for the performance of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Method: a cross-sectional population-based study with a sample of 1,136 elderly persons (≥65 years old) from seven Brazilian municipal regions was carried out. Functional capacity was assessed by the self-reports of the elderly in terms of the performance of IADL, using the Lawton Scale. Differences between the genders, according to sociodemographic variables, were verified by the chi-squared test ( p
