The home care health service: origin, functions and the insertion of odontogeriatrics

• Autor(a) principal: Dias,Mirtes Helena Mangueira da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Fonseca,Suzana Carielo da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/303
• topic: Home, patients, elderly.

<p>It is known that in many countries, particularly in Brazil, there is a movement toward the implementation of home care in the provision of health services provided to citizens. The aim of this paper is to question this movement and its effects in promoting the health of the elderly. The focus will be directed to the home care services provided by an interdisciplinary team of a public hospital located in the city of S&atilde;o Paulo. More particularly we will put emphasis on the odontological home care. It is worth saying, initially that the reconfiguration of hospital medical care done through the home service is motivated by a number of factors which are, as we will see ahead related to financial/administrative problems (public policies), subjective and social. To address the specifities that are in play in this mode of medical care provided to the elderly we present at first a historical retrospective, in an attempt to clarify how, why and when the hospital opened to: 1) a medical care proposal done outside the hospital premises, 2) professionals not only of medical background - thus forming the teams. Next we will specifically look at the organization/structure of the Home Care Service of Hospital do Servidor P&uacute;blico Municipal de S&atilde;o Paulo and the odontological care of the elderly, users of this service.</p>