Nursing diagnoses of the Pattern of Mobility in the elderly attended by the Family Health Program

Abstract

With aging there is an increase of the occurrence of incapacity and risk of loss of mobility in the elderly. Our objective was to study the occurrence of 22 Nursing Diagnoses of the Moving Pattern in elderly people in relation to frequency, sex and age. It is an exploratory study that involved 75 elders assisted by a team of the Family Health Program in Goiânia, State of Goiás. We found that 97.3% of the sample presented one or more diagnoses. The most frequent diagnoses were Impaired Physical Mobility (90.7%), Pattern of the Disturbed Sleep (89.4%) and Inefficient Health Upkeep (75.9%). We did not find statistically significant difference in the frequency of diagnoses among men and women. We identified statistically significant difference between the frequency of diagnoses and age. We noticed that there are specific characteristics of the sample that suggest the need for each team of Health Family Program to evaluate its clientele in order to direct early appropriate interventions.