Projeto de Intervenção para melhorar a assistência à saúde de cuidadores informais de domiciliados e acamados da USF Zugão.

Abstract

The emergence of health conditions that cause incapacity or limitation in activities of daily living, produce dependency in the individual. Homebound and bedridden patients are considered people with a certain degree of incapacity. The levels of incapacity influence the levels of dependency on care. The person who assists and provides care to these dependents is known as a caregiver. They can be formal or informal and the latter can be in turn primary or secondary, depending on whether or not they remain fully with the individual being cared for. In a team meeting, the main problems of the population in the first half of 2024 were identified through a rapid estimate, and the low participation in health actions of informal caregivers of homebound and bedridden patients at the Odair Aparecido Roque Botter Zugão USF in the city of Pompeia, a municipality in central-west of São Paulo, was identified as a priority. In 2024, Law 15.069/24 was sanctioned in Brazil, which institutes the National Care Policy and aims at the right to be cared for, to care for and to self-care. The family health team is responsible for offering health services in a comprehensive and equitable manner to informal caregivers to ensure improvements in their quality of life, with a total impact on the quality of life of the dependent and the family. This research aims to increase the participation of informal caregivers of home-based and bedridden individuals in our area in the activities. This is an Intervention Project developed in 2025 by the author together with the USF team. A broad review of the bibliography was carried out in search of studies with similar proposals and an overall behavior similar to that recorded by the team was found. The critical nodes were identified and a proposal for actions was created that, with low cost and high governability, allow to increase the motivation for self-care on the part o informal caregivers and facilitated access to services, implying greater adherence to health actions.