KEY ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA

• Autor(a) principal: Brum, Karize
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Leite Funchal Camacho, Alessandra Conceição
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Enfermagem Atual In Derme
• Texto Completo: https://revistaenfermagematual.com/index.php/revista/article/view/1734
• topic: Idoso; Demência; Tecnologia Educacional; Cuidadores; Acesso à internet; Aged; Dementia; Educational Technology; Caregivers; Internet Access; Anciano; Demencia; Tecnología Educacional; Cuidadores; Acceso a Internet

Objectives: Characterize the sociodemographic profile, identify doubts/ difficulties of family caregivers of elderly people with dementia at home and sources of information/guidelines for care. Methods: Exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research. Interviews were carried out with a semi-structured script divided into 4 blocks (sociodemographic profile, difficulties and doubts, the search for information/guidelines and the internet as a source of information/guidelines) with 22 family caregivers from a Reference Center in Niterói, Brazil. For data analysis, a thematic analysis was performed. Results: The internet is a teaching-learning tool for caregivers; The Digital Educational Technology must have: cell phone access; content formats with texts and videos; exchange of experiences among caregivers; be intuitive, accessible and informative; easy-to-navigate icons; content on behavioral and cognitive changes in elderly people with dementia, on the disease and its phases and on how to conduct care while minimizing conflicts; information from reliable sources with appropriate language. The fundamental elements made it possible to build a digital educational technology in the form of a web portal applicable to reality based on listening to family caregivers.