2019
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0768
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Abstract: Objective: to understand how nurses deal with the elderly’s autonomy at the end of life. Method: qualitative, exploratory study, guided by the Grounded Theory. Ten nurses, eight doctors and 15 nursing technicians were interviewed between November 2016 and May 2017 at a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. Results: nurses deal with the elderly’s autonomy in compliance with the code of ethics and exercise leadership in actions and interactions to defend this right, evaluating, guiding and listening to… Show more

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“…The consequences of CNCDs greatly affect the quality of life of the elderly, directly impacting their autonomy and independence, given that the developments are mostly associated with some form of physical limitation, which compromises the activities of daily living and interpersonal relationship (4,9) .…”
Section: The Autonomy Of the Elderly And The Care Planmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The consequences of CNCDs greatly affect the quality of life of the elderly, directly impacting their autonomy and independence, given that the developments are mostly associated with some form of physical limitation, which compromises the activities of daily living and interpersonal relationship (4,9) .…”
Section: The Autonomy Of the Elderly And The Care Planmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, the difficult psycho-emotional confrontation in dealing with the aging process, along physiological changes during the illness, compound with other social challenges, such as the negative stigmatized image of the elderly in the collective ideal, which generates depersonification and whose influence interferes in the nurse-client relationship. The association between advancing age and disability compromises the development of a professional-patient shared care plan, which tends to become imposing and unilateral, with the possibility of depriving the elderly of the decision-making power over themselves, a fact that contributes to the perpetuation of a paternalistic care posture (3)(4) .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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