Comunicação suplementar e alternativa na população idosa e sua relação com as atividades de vida diária: uma revisão sistemática

Abstract

Introduction: The Brazilian population has been maintaining an aging trend, resulting in changes in the individual’s physical and cognitive aspects. Some of these changes can decrease the loss of orality and lead to the difficulty of the individual’s interaction with the collective. Objective: We seek to identify how Supplementary and Alternative Communication (CSA) has been related to the elderly public in scientific productions and as a specific objective, we sought relationships between the use of CSA resources and activities of daily living (ADL) in this population. Method: The survey of articles was carried out in four databases (SciELO, BDTD, BIREME and PubMed). Only studies that included interventions with the use of CSA that included the elderly population and the ADL were included. The methodological quality of the investigations was assessed using the PRISMA check-list, being registered in the PROSPERO-International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews and for data analysis, the software Interface de R pour les Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires (IRaMuTeQ®). Results: At the end of the searches, a total of three articles were obtained to compose the corpus of analysis of the review and all were evaluated with high methodological quality. The interventions used in the studies were: confection of albums and boards of CSA and memory books. Conclusion: At the end of the review, it was evidenced that the CSA had a significant impact for different subjects, with different interventions that comprised the studies presented here.