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Quem irá empurrar minha cadeira de rodas? A escolha do cuidador familiar do idoso
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emotional ties personal relationships form lives affect quality family relationships grow older objective study evaluate family functioning among elderly people attending adult literacy classes identify would choose care older age descriptive transverse study based principles quantitative qualitative research method family functioning assessment used family apgar proposed smilkstein 1978 data statistically analyzed frequency measures 93 elderly people evaluated comprehension caregiver choice made indepth interviews 9 participants three apgar category interviews analyzed following content analyze model thematic analyze category proposed bardin 1977 ethical guidelines research human participants followed results obtained family apgar scale indicate 81 participants well functioning families 8 presented moderate family dysfunction 4 presented high family dysfunction indepth interviews conducted three participants category three groups caregiver choice respect gender female family relationship daughter family composition multigenerational definition push wheelchair choice determined sociocultural values individual life histories choice multivariate issue affected lifelong processes