INTRODUCTION: Home health care is a practice that goes back to the very existence of families as a unit of social organization. In Brazil, home care covers several aspects, actions of visits, visits and home hospitalizations.OBJECTIVE: To analyze the scientific production of the nurse, doctor and psychologist in the home visit of the elderly in Primary Care in Brazil.METHOD: This is a narrative review using the OMNIS search tool (PUCRS) and uses the following descriptors: “home visit” and “elderly” or “elderly health”. We included articles from the last 10 years (2008-2018), peer reviewed and available in English, Portuguese or Spanish.RESULTS: we found the following publications: 22 in Nursing, 19 in Medicine and 12 in Psychology. After the complete reading of the selected articles, we opted for the analysis of 10 studies in the area of Nursing, 8 in Medicine and 4 in Psychology.CONCLUSIONS: There was a lack of scientific material directly related to the subject in Medicine and Psychology. In the area of Nursing, the articles were more specific about the role of nurses in the management of care.
Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados.Resumo. O estudo objetivou investigar os efeitos da Terapia Assistida por Animais (TAA) na qualidade de vida em idosos por meio de uma revisão sistemática. Foi realizada a busca de artigos, por dois juízes, nas bases de dados indexadas na Medline, PsycINFO, Embase e Web of Science. Utilizaram--se as recomendações da Declaração Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses para esta revisão. A partir de critérios de inclusão/ exclusão, foram recuperados e analisados oito artigos. Os estudos destacam que a TAA produz melhoria na qualidade de vida dos idosos, e os instrumentos para essa avaliação foram diversificados. Conclui-se que a TAA afeta positivamente a qualidade de vida dos idosos. Palavras-chave:Terapia Assistida por Animais, qualidade de vida, idosos.Abstract. This study investigated the effects of Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) on elderly quality of life through a systematic review. Articles were searched by two judges at Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, and Web of Science. This research was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. After the criteria for inclusion and exclusion were applied, eight articles were selected and analyzed. The majority of studies found that AAT has positive effects on quality of life by the elderly, and different instruments were used for such evaluation. Finally, it can be concluded that AAT improves the quality of life among the elderly.
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