Resultados: 63

Effectiveness of an educational intervention on knowledge-attitude-practice of older adults' caregivers

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To compare the knowledge, attitude and practice of older adults' caregivers before and after an educational intervention in the domains of the care between caregiver and older adult, feeding, bathing, hygiene and mobility and transportation. Method: Quasi-experimental study carried ...

Emergency care units and dimensions of accessibility to health care for the elderly

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (supl.2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the conception of the elderly and their caregivers about the accessibility to health mediated by the service in Emergency Care Units. Methodo: a qualitative study conducted with 25 elderly patients and caregivers at Emergency Care Units in a city of Paraná, using Grou...

Educational technology: a facilitating instrument for the elderly care

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (supl.2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To develop educational technology with caregivers of older people based on the needs, difficulties and concerns related to the elderly care expressed by the caregivers themselves. Method: Research of qualitative nature, with participant observation, based on concepts used by Paulo F...

Elderly and caregiver demand: proposal for a care need classification

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (supl.2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To propose a care need classification for elderly people by identifying their functional demands. Method: Cross-sectional study carried out in São Paulo, in 2006, with 1,413 elderly (≥ 60 years old), participants in the Health, Well-being and Aging study (SABE - Saúde, Bem E...

Validity and reliability of the Brazilian version of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (supl.2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the validity based on the internal structure and reliability of the Brazilian version of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA) applied to informal caregivers of dependent elderly. Method: A methodological study with 120 informal caregivers of the elderly. Validity based...

Repercussions of hospitalization due to fall of the elderly: health care and prevention

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (supl.2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To know the repercussions of the fall reported by the elderly and their caregiver during hospitalization in a public hospital in Florianópolis city from October to December 2014. Method: Exploratory research with a qualitative approach, conducted by depth interviews with 16 partici...

Time use by family caregivers of elderly with dementia: an integrative review

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (supl.2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the development of measures used between 1993 and 2016 to evaluate time use by family caregivers of elderly with dementia and to find out the patterns of time use identified in the literature. Method: An integrative review of articles was performed, indexed by the follow...

Elderly who take care of elderly: a study on the Frailty Syndrome

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (4), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: Identifying prevalence of frailty in elderly caregivers inserted in a high social vulnerability context and its correlation with sociodemographic and health aspects. Method: Descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study. Forty elderly caregivers were evaluated with: questionn...

Stress and optimism of elderlies who are caregivers for elderlies and live with children

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (4), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the relation between stress and optimism of elderlies who are informal caregivers for elderlies and live with children. Method: cross-sectional study on 50 elderlies who provide care to elderlies, live with children, and are registered in the primary health care. The int...

Vulnerability of caregivers of the elderly with dementia: a cross-sectional descriptive study

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (4), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the sociodemographic and clinical profile of the caregivers and its relation with the overburden from the care of the elderly with dementia. Method: a cross-sectional descriptive study; the sample was non-probabilistic, developed with caregivers of elderly people with de...