PALLIATIVE CARE AND THE METHOD OF CARE: HOW DEEP DOES THE INVOLVIMENT GO?

• Autor(a) principal: Faresin, Cristina
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Portella, Marilene Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre o Envelhecimento
• DOI: 10.22456/2316-2171.6190
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/RevEnvelhecer/article/view/6190
• topic: Palliative Care; Long-Stay Institutions for the Old-Aged; Terminal Care.; Cuidados Paliativos

PALLIATIVE CARE AND THE METHOD OF CARE: HOW DEEP DOES THE INVOLVIMENT GO? This study aimed to investigate how the involvement of the nursing team has been occuring against the situation of the person who needs palliative care. A qualitative research was developed with five nursing professionals, of both sexes, over 19 years old, that have been working at least for one year in one of the three longstay institutions for elderly people, in Passo Fundo, RS, and render palliative care. The participants answered to semi-structured interviews, whose content was qualitatively analyzed, being unveiled the following categories: palliative care understanding, working with the death, proceeding with routines and observating the family behavior. The professional caregiver presents difficulties in separating the roles in the social context and, in knowing how to work with the death of those who are under his care. The support for professional and occupational caregivers is rare once they are suffering a remarkable wear in interventions with residents as much as in certain circumstances involving the relatives. The quality of assistance to this group can be improved if special attention is given to palliative care, whether by means of information and training technologies or initiatives that provide continuing education programs directed to elderly caregivers.