[Cognitive and health conditions in elderly participants in recreation and leisure activities centers]. / Estado cognitivo e condições de saúde de idosos que participam de grupos de convivência.

The objective of the present study was to identify the cognitive and health conditions of elderly participants in community center groups in a northern city in Rio Grande do Sul. The study is a descriptive cross-sectional research, performed with 85 elderly participants attending community center groups. Two instruments were used for data collection. One instrument gathered sociodemographic data and included the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Descriptive statistics were used in data analysis. Results indicated a female predominance 79 (92.9%), with 52 participants within the age bracket 60-69 years (61.2%); 46 were widowed (54.1%), 45 had four to seven years of formal education (52.9%) and 53 were living with companions (62.4%). Hypertension and varicose veins, in addition to fall events 34 (40%) stood out among the diseases/conditions determined to affect participants in this study. The MMSE demonstrated that 20 (23.6%) of the elderly people presented with cognitive decline. Results point out the need for guided interventions to maintain functional capacity and autonomy in the elderly.

[Permanent education in health and nursing work: perspective of a transformative praxis]. / Educação permanente em saúde e no trabalho de enfermagem: perspectiva de uma práxis transformadora.

This is a theoretical reflection that aims to encourage readers to rethink the role of permanent education of health and nursing subjects/workers in the perspective of individual and collective development through transformative praxis. We tried to make a thoughtful articulation about principles of transformative praxis presented by the philosopher Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez with the precepts of permanent education in health and nursing work. This articulation presents an educational concept in favor of the subject-worker's awareness about the distinct contributions of personal, social, relational and institutional arrangements that may result from different ways of perceiving and practicing permanent education in health and nursing work.

[Education and care in nursing: passport to the learning, education, and care in health]. / Cuidar-educando em enfermagem: passaporte para o aprender/educar/cuidar saúde.

This is an essay about care and education in nursing from integrative and converging approaches, elucidating that the dialogical process between the subject who cares and the citizen-subject who is cared must occur in a problem-maker perspective, contextualized and transversalized between the two conceptual worlds that involve the human relations. It shows furthermore that, to the professional exert the care and education, he must use a "passport" that conducts him to different "scales" of knowledge in a creative, aesthetical, ethical, political and technical approach. In which the education empowers the capacity of care and the use of it, capacitates him to intervent in a constructive/reflexive, singular/plural, dynamic/flexible way, in a given historical cultural context of relationships between subjects.