Idosos cuidadores de idosos: estresse e suas implicações

• Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro, Charles Catri
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• 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/12442
• topic: Estresse; Cuidado; Envelhecimento; Velhice; Saúde; Gerontologia; Stress; Care; Aging; Old age; Health; Gerontology; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This dissertation aims to reflect on the relationship between "stress" and "care" in the Gerontology field. It brings to light, more specifically, a theoretical-methodological contrast of matters related to the effects of stress (both positive and negative) that the activity of taking care of an elderly person may promote over an elderly caretaker. The problems and solutions which arise when dealing with the multiple demands posed by such a relationship, as well as its advantages and disadvantages (from a biopsychosocial point of view), are discussed here using as reference the scientific literature in both the Gerontology and Psychology fields. That perspective has helped define the following specific goals: (1) to investigate if, and how, stress may be an intervenient factor in the caretaking relationship between two elderly people, and, consequently, what its biopsychosocial developments are; (2) to identify and analyze the main sources of stress in the caretaking relationship between two elderly people; (3) to investigate what the social support demands of such a caretaking relationship are; (4) to analyze the specificities of the support a therapist with a formation in Gerontology can offer to an elderly person who develops an array of stress symptoms while taking care of another elderly person. For that purpose, a field research involving 4 elderly subjects who care after 4 other elderly subjects was conducted. This case study was the chief methodological instrument used, along with a bibliographical review. It is important to note that "case" relates not only to a specific situation from which we can obtain certain universal principles of scientific grounds, but also to the unique situation of an individual. I, furthermore, clarify that key concepts established throughout the chapters have guided the analysis of the collected data, in which I seek to question the need for including pairs of opposites such as potency versus impotency; health versus disease; autonomy versus dependency; wellness versus illness when investigating the processes of aging and old age