Características sócio-demográficas do atendimento ao idoso após alta hospitalar na Estratégia da Saúde de Família

Abstract

The objective of this study was o verify the sociodemographic profile of the elderly and the health care service they receive from the Family Health Strategy (FHS) after their discharge. This is a descriptive study, and data collection was performed with 67 aged individuals who were discharged in October, November and December, 2007, and lived in the area covered by the FHS of Marília (São Paulo state). Simple descriptive analysis was used for the presentation of data. The majority of the elderly are female, and their hospitalization occurred as a referral of the Emergency Room due to complication. More than two thirds report they were visited by FHS team professionals, mainly the Community Health Agent (CHA), but they suggested the team should follow up closer. In conclusion, it is necessary to develop a new health care model for the elderly after hospital discharge.

Segurança do paciente no uso de medicamentos após a alta hospitalar: estudo exploratório1

“…Coordination between the hospital and other health care services in post-discharge care Problems related to referring patients to other, higher or lower complexity units, reported in the HU/USP interviews have also been described in other Brazilian studies (Simino et al, 2010;Marin et al, 2010;Perrechi and Ribeiro, 2009), showing the lack of integration between hospitals and primary care, as well as the recurring lack of available hospital beds.…”

Comunicação não verbal entre enfermeiros e idosos à luz da proxêmica

“…Consequentemente, no que concerne à procura pela assistência à saúde são as mulheres as que mais buscam pela assistência, além de estarem mais atentas a sinais e sintomas que remetem a doenças, estando os homens com os maiores índices de mortalidade. Algumas hipóteses para esses índices sugerem a violência, os acidentes de trânsito e as doenças crônicas (6)(7) .…”

Elderly health care: the referral and counter-referral system in health services

“…To achieve the goal of care continuity, health professionals must, therefore, break away from the standard of isolated, paternalistic, and authoritarian care, renew the working method, and adopt, as a philosophy, interdisciplinary teamwork, looking at the comprehensiveness of a human being, so that the elderly person is viewed as a whole, considering her/his social context. 13 In this context, we observe the influence that the absence of counter-referral, or its restricted applicability, exerts on the elderly person, and it also negatively influences on the functionality of clinical networks, as they are discontinued, have fragmented clinical flows.…”

“…13 Communication is a need in the clinical network, since, today, elderly health must be based on continuity, as individual medical care sporadic and restricted to complications has not met the needs of this population. To achieve the goal of care continuity, health professionals must, therefore, break away from the standard of isolated, paternalistic, and authoritarian care, renew the working method, and adopt, as a philosophy, interdisciplinary teamwork, looking at the comprehensiveness of a human being, so that the elderly person is viewed as a whole, considering her/his social context.…”