New perspectives for age groupings for older people

Due to the increase in life expectancy, the number of elderly people in the world has increased 2, causing concern in health systems and social care. The present study aims at the general evaluation of the health status of the elderly in a Brazilian city, for the construction of disease prediction instruments. The present study has a descriptive character with a cross-sectional, observational, qualitative-quantitative approach, with 350 elderly individuals, of both sexes, divided into age groups: 69-69 years, 70-79 years, 80-84 years, 85-89 years, 90 years or older, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the food frequency questionnaire ABUEL and WHOQOL-BREF were used. The variable works and Medication for heart should follow the pattern of age group according to OMS after proving the analysis of significance values, in which it was demonstrated that there is no standard if the ages are grouped. For the hypertension variable, it is recommended to use the following age range 60 to 69 years and 70 to 84 years, as shown in table 3, considering the value of p ≤ 0.196, in which the age ranges show the same pattern of association. While the variable income is possible the use of the range of 60 to 79 years and 80 to 84 years, considering the value of p≤ 0.234. The grouping of the elderly by age groups according to the variables studied shows that in some dimensions of life, age does not significantly interfere.