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HERNANDEZ BAGUER, Raisa; TRIANA CASADO, Idalia; BUENO ARRIETA, Yurania  y  CID VAZQUEZ, Bárbara. Functional capacity, psychological and social repercussion and quality of life in elders with involute macular. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.3, pp.387-398. ISSN 1729-519X.

Introduction: the involute macular degeneration is important cause of visual disability in the elders. Objective: to identify the functional capacity, psychological and social repercussion and quality of life of the elders with involute macular degeneration. Material and Methods: a descriptive and transverse study was carried out in 230 elders of the Health Area «Héroes de Girón» with this illness during the year 2007. The variable age, sex, color of the skin, visual sharpness, and visual disability, clinical type of macular degeneration, functional capacity, psychological repercussion, quality of life and social repercussion were analyzed. Results: prevailed the patients between 70 and 79 years (73,91 %), the women (66,08 %), the white skin (65,21 %), the moderate visual dweebs (42,17 %), the maculophaty (49,77 %), the dependence with help´s demand (38,26 %), the loss of rolls or self-esteem (71,73 %), the dissatisfaction with its current life (80,86 %) with handicapped evidence (67,82 %) and the social repercussion, only in 6,52 % it doesn't seem to exist. Conclusions: most of the elders with the illness present functional dependence. The decrease of the functional capacity rebounds psychological and socially in its daily life, diminishing its quality of life.

Palabras clave : functional capacity; quality of life; involute macular degeneration.

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