Os agentes comunitários em saúde na prevenção de quedas em idosos: uma proposta de intervenção

Abstract

Demographic aging is a reality in Brazil and although it is the expression of socio-economic progress and health, is associated with higher prevalence of comorbidities. Standing out among these are recurrent medical conditions in the elderly such as falls. This is a major clinical and public health problem due to its high incidence, physical and psychosocial complications and high medical care costs. It is known that the majority of the elderly falls present preventable causes. This study aims to design an intervention project to create elderly fall prevention strategies at José Silas Coelho health center in the city of Ouro Branco. A review of the supporting literature and analysis of scientific papers available on the data bases SCIELO and LILACS was made. The Situational Strategic Planning for structuring this intervention Project was used. The expected result is to enable the Agentes Comunitários de Saúde to be able to propose interventions at the time of home visits in order to prevent falls in the elderly.