Qualidade de vida: comparação entre idosos de uma comunidade brasileira e idosos institucionalizados / Quality of life: comparison between the elderly in a Brazilian community and the institutionalized elderly / Calidad de vida: comparación entre los ancianos de una comunidad brasileña y mayores institucionalizados
The objective of this study was to compare the quality of life among elderly people living in a Brazilian community, and elderly people living in long - term care institutions. It is a comparative, cross-sectional and quantitative study. The institutionalized elderly showed statistically significant lower scores in all domains of quality of life when compared to the elderly living in the community. Living in a long-term institution seems to be a factor that compromises the quality of life of the elderly living there.