Resultados: 5

Global functionality and associated factors in the older adults followed by Home Care in Primary Health Care

Objective: to analyze the association of global functionality with the main functional systems and the sociodemographic variables of older adults followed by Home Care in Primary Health Care. Method: a cross-sectional study with 124 older people developed through home interviews. Functionality was asses...

Estado nutricional e evolução clínica de idosos em terapia nutricional enteral domiciliar: uma coorte retrospectiva

Objetivo avaliar a evolução clínica e nutricional de idosos que recebem terapia nutricional enteral domiciliar. Método estudo observacional do tipo coorte retrospectiva. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de análise de prontuários dos registros clínicos e nutricionais. Foram analisadas as...

Needs of family caregivers in home care for older adults

ABSTRACT Objective: to reveal the felt and normative needs of primary family caregivers when providing instrumental support to older adults enrolled in a Home Care Program in a Primary Health Service in the South of Brazil. Methods: using Bradshaw's taxonomy of needs to explore the caregiver's felt nee...

Home Delivery Medicament Program: access, inactivity and cardiovascular risk

ABSTRACT Objective: to verify causes of inactivity in the Home Delivery Medicament Program, as referred by users from a Primary Health Care Service in São Paulo, comparing them to the causes registered in the program and analyzing them in the theoretical model Concept of Access to Health. Methods: c...

Quality of life, happiness and satisfaction with life of individuals 75 years old or older cared for by a home health care program

This case study identifies the elements that compose the Quality of Life (QofL) of individuals who were 75 years old or older and receive care at home. The study’s sample was composed of individuals 75 years or older cared for by a home health care service in the primary health care unit in Vilafranca d...