POPULATION AGING: PHC'S ROLE IN ENSURING ACCESS TO THE ELDERLY POPULATION

• Autor(a) principal: Zanoni, Rodrigo Daniel
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Feitosa do Nascimento, Ana Carla, Nascimento, Bianca Thaís Silva do, Costa, Yasmim Ferreira de Araujo, Schuler, Maria Fernanda de Lemos, Rodrigues, Isabela Carolina dos Santos da Silva, Pereira, Maria Alice Neves de Arruda, Cardoso, Thierry da Silva, Teixeira, Heloizia Ferreira, Pellin, Emerson, Ferreira, Cássia Sousa, Irazoqui , Rafaela Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://bjihs.emnuvens.com.br/bjihs/article/view/753
• topic: Envelhecimento; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Acesso aos serviços de saúde; Aging; Primary Health Care; Access to Health Services

OBJECTIVE: To elucidate the role of Primary Health Care to ensure access to health for the elderly population. METHOD: For the elaboration of the study, organizational methodological steps were stipulated for the construction and foundation of the present study, and these steps were successively: definition of the guiding question, sampling in the literature, data collection, critical analysis of the included studies, discussion of the results and presentation of the integrative review The filter used for the searches was with the descriptors; (Aging) AND (Primary Health Care) AND (Access to Health Services). RESULTS: The final sample consisted of 6 studies that resulted in a topic for discussion: Strategies to facilitate access to health care in the elderly population. CONCLUSION: It was possible to conclude that the Primary Care team needs to identify the main access difficulties of its elderly population, carrying out investigation, implementation and evaluation of the measures taken, in order to perceive whether they were effective within that population, seeking to facilitate access and ensuring principles such as equity, universality and comprehensiveness.