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Download full textGrossi, Flávia Cristina Duarte Pôssas; Fonseca, Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
This study analyses how older (mostly 60 years or over) women who are literacy students at Youth and Adult Education Program in a small village of Brazil appropriate school numeracy practices during a class about the discursive genre "label" and the information it conveys. We focus on the students' participation in the discursive…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Females, Adult Literacy, Merchandise Information
Direct linkTeixeira do Amaral, Vanessa; Roque Marçal, Isabela; da Cruz Silva, Thiago; Bianchi Souza, Fernanda; Volpato Munhoz, Yacco; Witzler, Pedro Henrique Camprigher; Monge Soares Correa, Matheus; Fernandes, Bianca; Gomes Ciolac, Emmanuel – Educational Gerontology, 2022
We investigate the effect of COVID-19 home confinement on levels of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in older women previously participating in exercise and educational programs. Our hypothesis was that home confinement would result in a reduction in levels of physical activity, an increase in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Physical Activity Level, Quality of Life
Virtuoso, Janeisa Franck; Menezes, Enaiane Cristina; Mazo, Giovana Zarpellon – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2019
Purpose: To determine if weight training combined with pelvic floor muscle training is more efficient than pelvic floor muscle training alone for the treatment of urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms in elderly women. Method: This was a two-arm, parallel, randomized controlled trial. Twenty-six women with stress UI participated in the study. The…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Females, Muscular Strength, Training
Cabral, Luana L.; Nakamura, Fábio Y.; Stefanello, Joice M. F.; Pessoa, Luiz C. V.; Smirmaul, Bruno P. C.; Pereira, Gleber – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2020
The aims of this study were to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) 6-20 Scale to Brazilian Portuguese language and to start testing its validity and reliability. After performing the cross-cultural adaptation of the Scale, concurrent and discriminative validity, and reliability were determined on a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Portuguese, Rating Scales
Ferreira, Heidi Jancer; Drigo, Alexandre Janotta; Kirk, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
Given the rapid growing number of the ageing population worldwide, it has been questioned how health and wellbeing in old age can be improved, especially for women in socially vulnerable contexts. Research have shown that social aspects are key determinants for older-age groups' engagement in an active life. It is crucial to understand older…
Descriptors: Health, Well Being, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults
Da Cruz, Fernanda Miranda – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This article reports on an investigation of echolalic repetition in Alzheimer's disease (AD). A qualitative analysis of data from spontaneous conversations with MHI, a woman with AD, is presented. The data come from the DALI Corpus, a corpus of spontaneous conversations involving subjects with AD. This study argues that echolalic effects can be…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Linguistics, Alzheimers Disease, Discourse Analysis
