Abstract

FREIRE, Maria Cássia Corrêa Mazzi; MARIN, Maria José Sanches; LAZARINI, Carlos Alberto  and  DAMACENO, Daniela Garcia. Life and health conditions of the elderly with mental disorders according to sex. SMAD, Rev. Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog. (Ed. port.) [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp. 1-11. ISSN 1806-6976.  http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1806-6976.smad.2020.153846.

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the conditions of life and health of elderly users of an outpatient mental health facility in accordance with the gender. METHOD: a cross-sectional study conducted in an outpatient mental health facilities in the countryside of São Paulo, with 138 elderly, through interviews. The inferential analyzes were performed by using the Pearson Chi-square test and the extension of the Fishers exact test. RESULTS: women are more often the prevention of cancer, flu vaccination, use of auxiliary aids when necessary; present diagnoses in mental health carried out in adult life, marital status "lives", independence in activities of daily living and mood disorders and personality. The men had their diagnoses in mental health later, use habit of alcohol and mental and behavioral disorders due to use of psychoactive substance. CONCLUSION: the living conditions and health of elderly people with mental disorder have different characteristics when comparing males with females. This evidences the need for the search for knowledge of the differences, for those who attend them professionally, considering the contexts that led to illness and current health conditions.

Keywords : Social Conditions; Mental Health; Elderly; Health Status.

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