Quality of life in swallowing of the elderly patients affected by stroke

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The elderly population faces many difficulties as a result of the aging process. Conceptualize and evaluate their life quality is a challenge, being hard to characterize the impact on daily activities and on functional capacity. The stroke is one of the most disabling neurologic...

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Main Authors: Émerson Soares PONTES, Ana Karênina de Freitas Jordão do AMARAL, Flávia Luiza Costa do RÊGO, Elma Heitmann Mares AZEVEDO, Priscila Oliveira Costa SILVA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Gastroenterologia (IBEPEGE)
Series:Arquivos de Gastroenterologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-28032017000100027&lng=en&tlng=en