Uma proposta de plano de ação para educação em saúde de idosos

Abstract

This work proposes a plan of action for health education of elderly people. By observing the demographic transition, the population is getting older, meaning an increase on health service demand, having primary health care as a starting point. In this scenario, this work demonstrates the importance of investments in light technologies that can provide means for self-care, respecting different peoples individuality, culture, knowledge and autonomy. The knowledge of conditioning and determining factors of health-disease, the interventions in it, the creation of a link and its strengthening in care relationships can provide changes that will lead to better life quality and satisfaction of elderly people, its relatives, community and health care team. For knowledge changing, the investment will come from the acquitted knowledge and, from its deconstruction to reacquire it without offending the life story of the involved people. For the theoretic basis, the content of disciplines of the specialization course in Family Primary Health Care, the virtual library on health and texts books have been consulted. After analyzing the local diagnosis, searching for critical points and completing a proposal of educational action for the elderly community from where the Health Family Strategy team works, São João in João Monlevade, MG. This proposal is supposed to stimulate investments in activities for promotion and health prevention.