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0077/2015 - The home visits by community health agent to families with frail elderly
A visita domiciliaria do agente comunitário de saúde a famílias com idosos frágeis

Author:

• Kelly Alves Magalhães - Magalhães, K.A. - Viçosa, Minas Gerais - Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou/FIOCRUZ, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Saúde - <kalvesmagalhaes@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Wagner Jorge Santos - Santos, Wagner Jorge - Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou/FIOCRUZ, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva - <wagnerjorge@cpqrr.fiocruz.br>
• Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo - Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo - Belo Horizonte, - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ MG), Núcleo de Estudos em Saúde Pública e Envelhecimento (NESPE) - <firmoj@minas.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5330-476X
• KARLA CRISTINA GIACOMIN - Giacomin, K. C. - BELO HORIZONTE, MG - Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Belo Horizonte (SMSA-PBH) - <kcgiacomin@hotmail.com>

Thematic Area:

Avaliação de Serviços de Saúde

Abstract:

The aim of this study was to understand the meanings that the community health agents attribute to the home visit conducted with families with frail elderly and if this technology work has served as a tool for care for this population. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community agents in the city of Bambui/MG, which were recorded, transcribed and analyzed. The model of signs, meanings and actions guided the collection and analysis of data. In their ways of thinking and acting, realizing aging inexorably associated with disability, the agents "try to help" people who experience sociocultural context similar to yours to have access to health services. How not receive guidelines for work with families with elderly, intuitively establish "equitable" criteria anchored in a solidarity and relational dimension that allow them to visit more risk groups ("elderly", "the needy", "sick", "the poor"). The visit comes in response to immediate demands of users to monitor these groups, but the focus of attention remains grounded in sickness and in supply of inputs and procedures. The desired reorientation of care model, the implementation of the National Health Policy for the Elderly and specific actions of care to families with frail elderly are not noticed.

Keywords:

Comunity Health Agents Care Aging Family Health Strategy Home Visit

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Magalhães, K.A., Santos, Wagner Jorge , Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo, Giacomin, K. C.. The home visits by community health agent to families with frail elderly. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2015/May). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-home-visits-by-community-health-agent-to-families-with-frail-elderly/15143



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