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Biological air contamination in elderly care centers: GERIA Project
| dc.contributor.author | Aguiar, Lívia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mendes, Ana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pereira, Cristiana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Neves, Paula | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mendes, Diana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Teixeira, João Paulo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-24T12:41:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-24T12:41:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Healthcare organizations throughout the world have an increasing concern about how to cope with a quickly aging population (Caley & Sidhu, 2011). This trend explains the increasing demand of long-term care services (Damiani et al ., 2009) such as Elderly Care Centers (ECCs) (Kembel et al ., 2012). In Portugal, the number of ECCs increased 49% between 1998 and 2010. Furthermore, considering that elders often spend a considerable portion of their lives indoors, enhanced by they reduced independency, it is clear that the possibility that adverse indoor climate can influence their health status cannot be ignored (Almeida-Silva et al ., 2014). It has been estimated that older persons spend about 19-20 hours per day indoors and the majority spend all of their time inside the ECCs. Older persons may be particularly at risk of detrimental effects from pollutants, even at low concentrations, due to their common and multiple underlying chronic diseases that increases their susceptibility. It is extremely important to assess elderly exposure to biological pollutants due to the adverse health effects caused by biological agents to this susceptible population present in ECCs, enhanced by the time these people spend indoors. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Aguiar, L., Mendes, A., Pereira, C., Neves, P., Menes, D., & Teixeira, J. P. (2014). Biological air contamination in elderly care centers: GERIA Project. ICEH14 /3rd International Congress of Environmental Health: Proceedings Book, 1, 316–318. | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-989-20-5086-7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/26097 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Área Científica da Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Instituto Politécnico do Porto | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | Our current research is supported by GERIA Project (www.geria.webnode.com): PTDC/SAU-SAP/116563/2010 and a PhD Grant (SFRH/BD/72399/2010) from Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT). | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Elderly Care Centers | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Biological pollutants | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Biological air contamination in elderly care centers: GERIA Project | pt_PT |
| dc.type | conference object | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Porto | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 318 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1ª | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 316 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | ICEH14 /3rd International Congress of Environmental Health: Proceedings Book | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 1 | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | pt_PT |