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0119/2019 - Advances and challenges of health care of the elderly population with chronic diseases in Primary Health Care.
Avanços e desafios da atenção à saúde da população idosa com doenças crônicas na Atenção Primária à Saúde.

Author:

• Miriam Schenker - SCHENKER M - <schenkerbrasil@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1307-3586

Co-author(s):

• Daniella Harth da Costa - Costa, D.H - <daniellaharth@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9881-9545


Abstract:

This article presents and discusses the developments and challenges to the elderly population health care, especially those with chronic diseases in primary care, having as a study scenario a family clinic in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The data were produced through the development of techniques such as participant observation, a focal group with an ESF team, an interview with the family clinic manager, and interviews with the elderly with or without relatives or caregivers. It is highlighted the biomedical health care model displacement for the biopsychosocial model and its implications in the attention, prevention and health promotion of the elderly. Despite the advances observed in the assistance, difficulties, especially in relation to the access of the population to the service were observed pointing to the perpetuation of inequities in health care. As for the elderly with chronic diseases, it is noted that the ESF team uses a series of strategies, both individual and collective, whose effects were identified in the speeches of the elderly, family members and caregivers, who qualify the assistance received. It is concluded that the care process is influenced by a myriad of factors and that are configured as objects of questioning and intervention in primary care

Keywords:

primary health care; chronic diseases, the elderly; family health strategy.

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SCHENKER M, Costa, D.H. Advances and challenges of health care of the elderly population with chronic diseases in Primary Health Care.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/May). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/advances-and-challenges-of-health-care-of-the-elderly-population-with-chronic-diseases-in-primary-health-care/17193?id=17193



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