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background: this study had as objective to characterize the institutionalized elderly residents in three long-term care facilities, about their functional capacity and mental state, and to evaluate if there is a correlation between both. methods: to do so, three instruments were used: an identification form, the mini-mental state examination (mmse) and barthelˋs index. for statistical analysis the personˋs correlation and anova test were used. results: the population studied consisted of 115 elders with ages between 62 and 104 years old, 40.66% females and 59.13% males. 49.56% are literate and 50.43% illiterate. regarding the marital status, singles (46.65%) and widows (21.8%) were predominant. about the mental and functional state, there was a high rate of elders showing cognitive decline (76.72%) and functionally independent (75.65%). conclusions: according to the results, one can notice that there is a mild degree of correlation between the barthelˋs index and mmse (r = 0.441; p %26lt; 0.000), and the variables of gender and age are not influenced in the results of these instruments. there is a significant statistical relation (p %26lt; 0.0001) between education and mental and/or functional state of the individual.
