Author:

• Natália Oliveira Rodrigues - Rodrigues, N.O. - Uberlândia, MG - Universidade Estadual de Campinas - <nat23or@yahoo.com.br>

Co-author(s):

• Anita Liberalesso Neri - Neri, A.L. - Universidade Estadual de Campinas - <anitalbn@uol.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6833-7668

Thematic Area:

Saúde do Idoso

Abstract:

Background: Sociocultural and economic conditions interact with biological process along the life course, determining vulnerability or resiliency in old age.
Objectives: Investigating relationships between social vulnerability (gender, age and income); individual vulnerability (comorbidities, signals and symptoms, functional ability, perceived social support, and self-rated health), and programmatic vulnerability (indexes of economic and social development of the region of residence and level of access to health services) in community-dwelling elderly.
Methods: 688 elderly people, recruited at home, in 88 urban primary sampling units (PSU) of Campinas, Brazil, were submitted to a single session of data collection.
Results: 470 were women, with more comorbidities and more signals and symptoms, but more socially engaged in AADL and IADL than men. Mean age was 72,28 ± 5,41; mean family income = 4,72 ± 5,28 minimum wages. The variables with most explanatory power over the joint variation of the data were access and use of health services, levels of social vulnerability and dependence of public health services, and income.
Conclusion: Social conditions as well as family income covary with individual vulnerability in old age.

Keywords:

Aging Access to health services Socioeconomic status Comorbidities Functional ability

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