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This is an exploratory, cross-sectional study carried out with 314 non-institutionalized elderly people linked to a chronic disease management program sponsored by a health plan operator located in the city of São Paulo, where these people live, during between the second semester of 2018 and the first of 2019. The objective, after comparing groups of elderly people with and without sensory losses-visual, auditory and double loss-, is to verify their interaction with variables related to functional capacity and detect which factors influence the presence of double loss. Data was collected related to which and how many chronic diseases were present, the number of medications of continuous use normally taken, the presence of visual and/or hearing loss diagnosed and constant monitoring by a doctor or speech therapist. Were applied scales to assess the functional capacity of these people. After descriptive analysis …