A baixa adesão dos idosos aos Programas de Atenção a Saúde na Unidade Escola em Passos Minas Gerais

Abstract

In the Brazilian scenario the constant growth of the elderly population has required from public policies some actions to help the maintenance of a satisfactory quality of life and the control of long existing diseases. The non-adherence acts for "Attention to Health" for the elderly is a challenge faced by many professionals working in the "Primary Health Care". Thus, the objective of this research is to conduct support an intervention plan in order to act on the factors that have contributed to the nonadherence of the elderly population for health care programs, establishing actions that allow rescue their participation in the programs and thus ensuring full health care and promoting assistance to this important population group. For the theoretical foundation of the research, a literary review was carried out using the following sources: Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SCIELO), BVS, BVMS, DATASUS, GOOGLE SCHOLAR; INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE GEOGRAFIA E ESTATÍSTICA (IBGE). Subsequently to this research was possible to know the factors that influence predominantly the participation of the elderly in health-care shares promoted in the unit which are: lack of family encouragement, the emphasis on health-care model based only in curing some diseases, low focus on the actions promoting health-care assistance, registration in private health-care insurances where the actions and preventions on good health are not prioritized. Later a plan of action was elaborated with proposals to confront the issues surrounding this low participation of older people. Through this, it is expected that staff acts in order to permanently overcome these factors which directly affect the fulfilling of the role of primary health promotion and prevention of diseases for the elderly. We also emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary team to understand about the complexity of the senile process and the actions necessary for the proper approach and monitoring of this patient surpassing then through integrated actions to the resistance of treatments and actions offered by the unit.