Introduction: With aging, the elderly need help to perform their daily activities, which, depending on each family, may be necessary to hire professional caregivers, but this responsibility often falls on a family member. Objective: to survey national and international publications in articles published from 2015 to 2020 that show the Burden produced by the care and Quality of Life of family caregivers of long-...
Objective: to present the social representations of aging in the world of work for elderly and adult nursing professionals. Method: research with a qualitative approach based on social representations. 36 nursing professionals aged between 27 and 67 years old, of both sexes, participated in a university hospital located in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The semi-directive interview was used to collect data and th...
The objective was to list the main diagnoses, results and nursing interventions for the frail elderly in a Long-Term Institution and for elderly people at home affected by the new coronavirus (COVID-19). This is a document review study, with a qualitative approach, of a descriptive and exploratory nature developed based on the official documents published by the Ministry of Health and on the documents prepared ...
To evaluate the dental care of the elderly and oral care provided by the caregiver to the elderly through closed questionnaire, CPO-D index, Simplified Oral Hygiene Index and Plaque Index in Dental Prosthetics; Method: Research quantitative and qualitative descriptive, with 50 seniors and their two respective caregivers (100) in a Long Term Care Institutions in the State of Rio de Janeiro. As a result, after th...
The role of the elderly caregiver in society becomes more and more important as the demand for this service increases. Studies confirm that exhaustion and illness can have a high prevalence in the lives of caregivers. The aim of this study is to identify the profile of elderly caregivers from a social, demographic, economic and health point of view and describe the objective impacts of physical and psychologica...
A qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study was conducted to analyze the influence of the climacterium on aging, in the perception of elderly women. The study was developed in the São Francisco de Assis Health Care Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Data were collected in individual interviews with 31 women, and processed through thematic content analysis. The results showed that the climacterium, characte...