Envejecimiento, finitud y muerte: narrativas de ancianos de una unidad básica de salud

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Pedro Igor Daldegan de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Padula Anderson, Maria Inez
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbmfc.org.br/rbmfc/article/view/2195
• topic: Aging; Death; Finitude; Primary health care; Family health strategy.; Envejecimiento; Muerte; Finitud; Atención primaria a la salud; Estrategia salud de la familia; Envelhecimento; Morte; Finitude; Atenção primária à saúde; Estratégia saúde da família.

The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive and exploratory work was to study, through the narrative of people with sixty years or older, how the active elderly perceive aging, finitude and death. The main goal was to explore how these  issues could be dealt by family doctors, and other professionals in Primary Health Care (PHC). Therefore, it is expected that this work should contribute for a better health care of people and families in those subjects related with the last stages of life already mentioned. In this context, it was explored the knowledge of the Vital Testament and Early Directives as well, both still not well established in Brazil. Interviews were conducted and recorded with a sample of accompanied elderly people at a Family Clinic in Rio de Janeiro. They were then transcribed for study, using the content analysis. It was observed an elderly people necessity to talk on these issues. But there is a lack of room for reflections about death and, mainly, on aging. In this sense, interesting accounts have been obtained on the differentiation between the aging and be elder. This study has brought relevant thoughts on the subject, beyond the contribution to the professionals’ formation. Also, about the activity’s development in the scope for the Primary Health Care and Palliative Care, concerning the treatment of people and families experiencing aging, finitude, period of decline and death itself.