O cotidiano de cuidados a uma mãe idosa: efeitos subjetivos e psicossociais na vida de filho cuidador

• Autor(a) principal: Augusto, Fernanda Maria Fávere
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12464
• topic: Filho cuidador; Idoso; Cuidados no cotidiano; Child caregiver; Elderly; Everyday care; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This study aims to discuss the effects in the life of a child carer, consequent to quota daily coexistence of mom or dad care elderly. Considering the problem of a family member be bound to assume the role of caregiver of elderly family, when affected by disease that needs assistance to carry out their activities of daily living; whereas a child carer can also be an elderly, most often a woman, this research has as chance that such a situation of dedication to careful Currently, complicated by new factors-if not driven or sustained by external forces as a formal or informal support network-can generate complicated effects to life of the child carer, transforming negatively the Act of caring. This is a qualitative and exploratory research, having as subject of research six children that play role of primary caregiver for over a year; nominated for participation in the study through a network of personal relationships, they are residents of the municipality of São Paulo and Grande São Paulo, residents of the regions: North, South, West and São Caetano do Sul. The method chosen was oral history; thematic oral history, which aims at the articulation of "oral to written sources documentation" (MEIHY; RIBEIRO, 2011, p. 88), by means of a semi-structured interview with the support of a screenplay, composed of closed and open questions in order to verify the effects in the life of the child carer, i.e. the impact associated with the functional and/or behavioral deterioration resulting from the everyday co-existence of care devoted to elderly mother and, one time, assess the shape and quality of care the interviews were recorded and transcribed subsequently. It was found from the lines of children caregivers that the everyday care is overload and absence of sharing among the other family members, in particular the brothers. We analyzed the social support network of the children is still scarce, and there is a need to expand this, given by means of special guidelines for professionals who work with old age