Envelhecimento com dependência e o cuidado familiar: a experiência de mulheres cuidadoras de idosos

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Trindade, Andréia de Albuquerque
• Orientador(a): Almeida, Carla Cristina Lima de
• Banca de defesa: Alencar, Mônica Maria Torres de , Freitas, Rita de Cássia Santos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social
• Departamento: Centro de Ciências Sociais::Faculdade de Serviço Social
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Envelhecimento; Gênero; Cuidado; Família; Saúde; Demência; Envelhecimento Aspectos sociais; Assistência à velhice; Cuidadores
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Aging; Gender; Care; Family; Health; Dementia
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/16043

This research forms part of the field studies of gender and generational relations as qualitative study about the experience of women caregivers of elderly patients with dementia treated at the Care Center for Elderly (NAI), comprehensive care clinic Health Elderly belonging to the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital and the State University of Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian population aging is a growing process, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the elderly population in 2013 already accounted for over 21 million people. The aging of the population is due to the increase in life expectancy, due to the advancement in the field of health and reduction of birth rate, and has been accompanied by changes in structures and family roles, which is currently seen as the primarily responsible for the provision of care for their elderly. In recent decades, we are faced with a double change: a transition in the demographic context and another in the epidemiological profile. Public policies for the protection of older people consider the family, society and the State responsible for the care. However, in practice, this has been seen as a private matter and not public, leaving mainly the family, especially to women the task of caring for the elderly. From the ten interviews with women caregivers content analysis, we found that many of these stated that his illness has permeated the process of caring for an elderly with dependence, as well as realize the restriction of sociability and the complaint of lack of support from extended family and the State through formal policies for care for the elderly with dependence. As regards the major health problems identified depression, hypertension and ostearticulares problems. Women caregivers reveal the care experience as a multidimensional process that present social, practical, subjective, cultural, hierarchical and historical aspects, but also defined in care as a moral and not an overload value.