RESUMO
This study aimed at identifying the social representations of the care given to the elderly by caregivers in a nursing home. Fifteen caregivers aged 28 to 32 years old who worked in a nursing home in the city of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil were subjects for this work and the Theory of Social Representations was used as reference. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews and analyzed by content analysis, which enabled the elaboration of categories, thus facilitating comprehension. Among such categories are: informal education, formal education, satisfaction, sadness, modes of confrontation and denegation.
Assuntos
Geriatria , Instituição de Longa Permanência para Idosos , Cuidados de Enfermagem , Casas de Saúde , Sociologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeRESUMO
This study tries to identify the roles family members have in the care of an elderly person experiencing the effects of cerebral-vascular disease in the home and the main strategies to employ in the treatment of such a patient. The theoretical methodological procedure was based on a psychological project, a historical drawing about a theme, in which five subjects who were caretakers drew two achromatic pictures narrating corresponding stories individually in their homes. This form of expression allowed the project designers to have an interpretation of the daily situations involved in the care of these patients. In the first analysis phase, we drew the conclusion that caretakers construct their own particular knowledge system regarding the care of the elderly patient in their home. We verified that this construction started with a network relating common, daily elements which are interwoven in the treatment process occurring within a specific social milieu which as a result generates strategies that rely heavily on common sense knowledge in the manner of carrying out this social function.