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- Projeto Lado a Lado - Dispositivo móvel de animação sociocultural rural. Relatório de resultados.Publication . Anica, Aurízia; Nave, Filipe; Gaudêncio, Jacinto; Pereira, AntónioCom o objetivo de avaliar os resultados e impacte social do Projeto Lado a Lado, cuja área de intervenção selecionada foi a zona rural da freguesia de Tavira (Santa Maria-Santiago), concelho de Tavira, pretendeu-se avaliar alterações na perceção da qualidade de vida, na depressão e no suporte das redes sociais, tendo sido desenhado um processo de avaliação que se desenrolou em duas fases: a) primeira fase que decorreu entre novembro de 2019 e março de 2020, com n= 59; b) fase de avaliação final que decorreu entre maio e setembro de 2022, com n= 102, em pleno contexto da pandemia de COVID-19. O indicador de sucesso do Projeto, em sede de candidatura, foi fixado na melhoria em 10%, em relação ao valor obtido à entrada, na qualidade de vida percecionada, bem como na presença de sintomas depressivos e no suporte das redes sociais.
- Profiles of ageing in the South of Portugal: education and cognitive functioning in elderly persons living in institutionalized and community contextsPublication . Silva, Maria Eugénia Duarte; Santos Gaudêncio, Jacinto JoséThe region of the Algarve shows huge differences between the coastline where population in the urban areas grows, and the inland rural areas, in some cases very isolated, which frequently have high ageing indexes. This general scenario, with an elderly population with very different economic and social conditions, frames the ongoing PhD research designed as a cross-sectional study of an intentional sample of elderly persons. The basic theoretical framework departs from the perspective of developmental psychology of life-span and the model of selection, optimisation and compensation for optimal ageing (Baltes & Baltes, 1990; Freund & Baltes, 2002). The present study is a first step in the analysis of empirical data collected in the PhD sample (N=156; age range 65 to 97 years; M = 80.4 years; SD = 7.2 years). Its purpose is to assess the cognitive functioning of participants, screening for cognitive impairment and examine the relations between the cognitive status of the subjects and a number of selected variables including educational level, age, physical activity and living contexts of the subjects. We accessed the cognitive status of the participants with the Portuguese version of Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) finding a 10.3% prevalence of positive cases with cognitive impairment. The results also show significant relationships between the cognitive status accessed by the MMSE and educational level, professional qualification, age, living arrangement and activity level of the participants. The relationship verified between educational level and cognitive status of the participants was the largest correlation found in the study with the variability in educational level accounting for 44.8% of the variability in MMSE score. This results points in the same direction of several lines of research that corroborate the strong intercorrelation between education and cognitive functioning in old age.