The human resource policies about the health sector are the subject of recent discussion in Brazil. This is because, in the period before the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS), the biomedical and hospital model, predominant in this period focused on quantitative aspects of the labor force, which objective is about of the number of services provided to the population and not the quality of these servic...
Objective: recognizing the self-assessment of quality of life (QOL) of older people caring for elderly from the WHOQOL-BREF tool. Method: a descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional study, of quantitative nature carried out from February to April 2013 in Fortaleza (CE) with 151 older people caring for elderly. It was used as a research tool the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument-bref (WHOQOL-b...
Objective: tracking potentially violent behavior committed against the elderly by caregivers, with the use of the instrument Caregiver Abuse Screen/CASE. Method: Exploratory, descriptive quantitative study, carried out with 157 caregivers of elderly in Fortaleza-CE, Brazil. Data were collected at home, from January to March/2012. It was applied descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. It obtained appro...