Socioeconomic and demographic profile and functionality of elderly served by the Family Health Strategy in Paranoá, Federal District, Brazil

OBJECTIVES: To establish the socioeconomic, demographic and functional profile of the elderly served by the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in Paranoá, Federal District, Brazil, observing possible associations among the factors found with the level of functional capacity in this population. METHODS: This is a descriptive research that applied a socioeconomic and demographic questionnaire, Lawton and Katz scales to obtain data on functionality in 93 elderly individuals. For statistical analysis we used the Fisher exact test and the chi-square, adopting a significance level of 0.05. RESULTS: There was no association between health elements (considering self-perceived health, diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, rheumatism, asthma, bronchitis, varicose veins, insomnia, acute myocardial infarction and stroke), or sociodemographic and economic functionality, except for factors such as history of falls and visiting friends (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: There was maintenance of basic activities of daily living, with small percentage of commitment to instrumental activities of daily living.