Alzheimer's disease in elderly/family: Difficulties experienced and care strategies

Ilha, Silomar; Backes, Dirce Stein; Santos, Silvana Sidney Costa; Abreu, Daiane Porto Gautério; Silva, Bárbara Tarouco da; Pelzer, Marlene Teda

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“…Caring for a person with AD requires knowledge and the development of skills (21) , since the level of understanding of the caregivers about the adequate care to the elder will directly interfere in the quality of life of the elder, considering that a better informed caregiver will feel safer, more confident and more capable of developing the actions of healthcare required by the elder (2) .…”

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Health literacy for caregivers of elders with alzheimer’s disease

2020

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Objective: To identify the level of health literacy in informal caregivers of elders with Alzheimer’s disease. Methods: Descriptive study with a quantitative and qualitative approach, with health literacy as a theoretical framework. Research carried out with 42 informal caregivers of elders with Alzheimer’s from a geriatrics outpatient clinic, using a questionnaire with sociodemographic data and the Health Literacy instrument. Results: The functional and conceptual levels were more prevalent, with regards to elders with Alzheimer’s, than the empowering level. Caregivers searched, evaluated, and used health information and expressed abilities to use and judge the information received. Final considerations: The predominance of categories in the cognitive level of learning indicates the need to strengthen the empowering level of these caregivers. Health literacy made it possible to reveal the demands of informal caregivers of elders with Alzheimer’s, evaluating their individual ability to offer this type of assistance. It is also a tool capable of reaching better health results.

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“…This data was also evidenced in a research that aimed to know the difficulties experienced by family caregivers of elderly people with AD and to develop strategies that meet the difficulties experienced in the care process for these people. The strategy built for this situation was not to upset the person, not to make him or her nervous, but to tell him or her that he or she will take him or her home, walk around the block, walking or driving and returning home entering, if possible, through a different door than the one that came out (17) .…”

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Awareness-raising workshops on (geronto)technologies for elderly/family care: contributions to knowledge

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Objective: to describe the contributions of awareness-raising workshops to the knowledge of students in health courses about care (geronto)technologies for elderly people/family. Methods: a strategic action research, developed with 12 students from the last semester of nursing, physiotherapy, dentistry and occupational therapy from a university in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data were collected from September to December 2019, through semi-structured interviews, before and after awareness-raising workshops, and submitted to content analysis. Results: the analyzed data, before the workshops, allowed constructing two categories that dealt with lack of knowledge and non-use of care (geronto)technologies. After the workshops, five categories made it possible to understand (geronto)technologies in the form of products and in the form of processes/strategies/knowledge. Conclusion: carrying out awareness-raising workshops contributed to knowledge production regarding the conceptual aspect and identification of their usefulness in the care setting.

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“…O envelhecimento da população é um processo natural que cresce significativamente no mundo, e pode vir acompanhado por problemas relacionados à saúde física e psíquica. Dessa forma, a demência senil pode ser responsável por 60 a 70% dos casos, e não possui cura, uma vez que, com a sua evolução, o indivíduo necessita de assistência contínua (Brayne, et al, 2017;Ilha, et al, 2016;Teixeira, et al, 2015).…”

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Avaliação cognitiva e da independência funcional de idosos em instituição de longa permanência em Araraquara, SP, Brasil.

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O objetivo foi avaliar a função cognitiva e a independência funcional de indivíduos residentes em uma instituição de longa permanência (ILP) na cidade de Araraquara, estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Foi realizada a avaliação clínica composta por Mini-Exame do Estado Mental (p= 0,7413), Teste do Relógio (p= 0,7407) e Medida de Independência Funcional (p= 0,8834). Não foi encontrada diferença da função cognitiva e da independência funcional em indivíduos residentes em ILP.

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Alzheimer's disease in elderly/family: Difficulties experienced and care strategies

Cited by 17 publications

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Health literacy for caregivers of elders with alzheimer’s disease

Health literacy for caregivers of elders with alzheimer’s disease

Awareness-raising workshops on (geronto)technologies for elderly/family care: contributions to knowledge

Avaliação cognitiva e da independência funcional de idosos em instituição de longa permanência em Araraquara, SP, Brasil.

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