Cuidadoras familiares de idosos dependentes por acidente vascular encefálico: o cuidado e as perdas

• Autor(a) principal: Mazeto, Ingrid Vilardi
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• 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/12611
• topic: Cuidador familiar; Luto; Gerontologia; Family caregiver; Mourning; Gerontology; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This study is the product of a survey conducted by the Group of Epidemiology Caregiver, whose primary focus is to know the reality of family caregivers of dependent elderly in the city of Sao Paulo. It is characterized by a longitudinal data collection on two different occasions, the first being in the years 2000 to 2002, to understand the impact on the lives of people who assume the role of caregiver for an elderly dependent family. The second, which constitutes the first step of this methodological study, in the years 2006 to 2008, with the main objective of seeking to understand the meanings of care and loss for family caregivers of elderly dependent vascular accident, whose family care had died. For that it theoretically contextualize the universe of family caregivers, death and mourning, directing the selection of subjects and method of this crop. The criteria for inclusion of subjects are: family caregivers of patients 50 years or more, carrying sequelae of stroke with three to six months after the episode, they need care, from hospitals of the Unified Health System , residents Sao Paulo, composing the universe of 50 cases at first. In the second phase of research (2006-2008), this universe previously studied 13 elderly care had died, five cases were excluded due to refusal of caregivers to participate in the interviews to form the research group of eight women, with six wives / widows and 2 daughters. The household interviews are conducted by a pair of researchers through semi-structured questionnaire and diary, setting information, data and perceptions of the caregivers, family care, the significance of the role of caring, and losses with the illness and death of person cared for. This study aims to more closely aligned with the reality experienced by wives / widows and daughters, from the moment they take care of dependent elderly family until the end of this function with the loss by death of this family. The role of caring in this study is part of the feminine universe, with their wives in greater numbers, followed by daughters. One downside to the daughters caregivers with the death of family care is the worsening financial situation because they have no right to social security benefits such as death pension for wives / widows. In this study we observed wives / widows and daughters caring for elderly husbands and elderly parents and in some cases, have become older during the care of this family. The technological and scientific advances allows for a greater longevity for the elderly with sequelae of stroke and other chronic diseases, showing and overview of long term care, which leads to the need, in short, create public policies that address the wives / widows and daughters the prolonged time spent in the care of their husbands and fathers. So they can receive for this role, relieving your fatigue, feeling cared for and maintain their health care, have potential to improve the well being of your family, and they have a professional accompaniment in her period of mourning for to reorganize