Educational actions in social gerontology: The experience of the project “I want more health and you?”

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Bruno Edilson Pereira do
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Lima, Uirassú Tupinambá Silva de, Santos, Jaqueline Maria Silva dos, Basílio, Jaqueline Arantes Diniz, Paiva, Annelise Machado Gomes de, Sena, Nadjane da Silva, Soares, Jandson de Oliveira, Pontes, Alessandra Nascimento, Veras, Valkíria Teixeira de Carvalho, Silva, Maria José Ribeiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/31607
• topic: Relato de experiência; Saúde do idoso; Extensão universitária; Ações educativas; Ensino.; Informe de experiencia; Salud de los ancianos; Extensión Universitaria; Acciones educativas; Enseñando.; Experience report; Elderly health; University Extension; Educational actions; Teaching.

This work aimed to socialize the experience lived by a nursing student in an extension project focused on the health of the elderly. This academic extension is one of the pillars for university education, it has a sense of extreme importance in the process of social interaction with the community, especially for planning and executing health promotion and prevention actions. The students' relationship with extension projects has made them aware of the reality that surrounds them and how they need to be participatory. A descriptive study of the experience report type (RE) was designed, which according to the literature. The extension project that resulted in the writing of this report took place from February to December 2019 in the auditorium of a Higher Education Institution. This project was conceived by a group of nursing students, with a view to comprehensive health care for the elderly from the perspective of the Unified Health System (SUS). This project took place in three moments, reception, health education and finally spirituality. The present experience allowed the immersion of students in the health of the elderly, being able to work well on the quality of life and explore health education in different ways. In this way, it is expected that the practices experienced in this project will provide a differential in the training of students, enriching the quality of future health professionals and strengthening qualified assistance.