A saúde do familiar- cuidador revisão integrativa

Abstract

In an increasingly aging society, there is the need to support elderly dependents, wonders about the fact that attention back to the health of the caregiver and the experience of caring for a patient at home is an increasingly growing trend. The objective of this study is to analyze the health of the family-caregiver considering the preventive and promotive aspects of health of that individual. The methodology used it is a search integrative descriptive and exploratory, seeking evidence of publications relating to the subject-family caregiver. In the result it was observed that 39 % of publications discoursed on the family-caregiver of elderly patients with dementia offered by the advancement of age, 18 % refer to family-caregiver demonstrating changes in habits that got after becoming a caregiver, others 43 % fall into familiar with specific pathologies. Thus, it can be considered that the nurses and other members of the nursing team, even without state support, as change agents in the health field, should be vigilant and committed to home care and caregiver to the elderly patient.