Educação em saúde para idosos na atenção básica : olhar de profissionais de saúde.

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Verbena Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5186
• topic: Educação em saúde; Envelhecimento; Qualidade de vida; Estratégia Saúde da Família; Profissionais da saúde; Promoção da Saúde; Health education; Aging; Quality of life; Family Health Strategy; Health professionals; Health promotion; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

Brazil is living with the exponential population aging, which is no longer synonymous with illness, because there are currently grants to improve the seniors quality of life. In this context, health education is an effective alternative to overcome the biomedical model focuses on disease as an individual phenomenon and curative medical care, making it an effective tool for these users to develop capacity to intervene on their own lives. This study investigated the experiences of professionals who work with health education aimed at the elderly in the Family Health Strategy, to verify the contribution of health education as a subsidy to attain a better quality of life for the elderly population and identify effective actions in health education targeting the elderly developed in the Family Health Basic Units. This was a qualitative research, and to meet the objectives proposed the method of Thematic Oral History was utilized, using the interview technique for the production of empirical data. The study was conducted in Campina Grande / PB, with twelve contributors who are part of the Family Health Team and work with in Health Education for the elderly or have worked with the subject under investigation. When analyzing the empirical material revealed three main themes which have significance and guided the whole discussion: health education on aging as an area of sharing and empowerment; health education activities as a tool for improving quality of life and health promotion the elderly population; and the instrumentalization of educational activities as a tool for the manipulation of educational activities in the Family Health Strategy: dilemmas, challenges and possibilities. The speeches show that the respondents use health education as an excellent tool of empowerment, which opens space for dialogue, listening, talking and sharing experiences of everyday life. We observed an improvement in the quality of life as the north of the collaborators in the educational actions, obtaining excellent results, and the need for health education be viewed as a social practice and proposed effective work. The revelations regarding the instrumentalization of education actions showed a methodological diversification, although there are few inputs and support received by public agencies and forwarded to numerous obstacles, such as the lack of space and time, discouragement and alienation among professionals and users, between others, but also revealed opportunities and positive experiences. The stories have shown us that much can be done to improve further the issues addressed in this study, as investments in health professionals in relation to methodological issues, from specialized training for the implementation of these actions, higher incentive government to distribute educational materials of good quality, to ensure better use of the guidance given, among other requirements that may fill gaps.