Elderly Cognitive and Functional Deficits with Caregiver Status in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

A cross-sectional study from the Programa de Educação pelo Trabalho em Saúde PET-Saúde analyzed 91 elderly individuals with Mini-Mental State Examination scores below 18 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The data includes age, gender, income, education, grip strength, living situation, and family caregiver presence. Amanda Cristina de Carvalho Miranda authored this study, which found 85% of the analyzed elderly lacked a family caregiver.

Use Cases

• Predicting the likelihood of an elderly individual living alone based on cognitive scores and demographic features mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing correlations between grip strength measurement results and other indicators of frailty described in the study.
• Modeling the prevalence of family caregiver absence across different income and education levels detailed in the results.

Strengths

• The dataset is based on a defined sample of 91 individuals selected using a specific clinical threshold (MMSE < 18).
• Results include specific percentages for key findings, such as 80% women and 85% without a family caregiver.
• Analysis includes multiple concrete variables like age range (60-96 years), income, education, and grip strength.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Amanda Cristina de Carvalho Miranda via paperswithcode.

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study from research of Programa de Educação pelo Trabalho em Saúde PET-Saúde, in the area of Elderly Health Care.

Geography

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.