Atendimento domiciliário: interação entre equipes e familiares

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Home care represents, in the health care setting, a less costly type of medical assistance model than the traditional approach and it holds the promise to alleviate both physical and psychological suffering of the patience and his relatives. However, the crude reality that home care professionals face involves working thru very challenging issues, what can be a stimulus to persevere or a reason to abandon this approach. To shed some light on these issues is the essential task of this study. Always looking from the health professional standpoint, its goal is to clarify certain aspects of the interaction of the multidisciplinary team and the relatives of chronic patients: the relationship that the team establishes with the family, the perceptions of the members of this team of family interactions with the patient and some general aspects of their own work in a home setting. It was verified that home care services had their genesis at the same time of hospitals and scientific medicine and this fact was determinant to establish the physician as the beholder of knowledge and power over the health politics of the XVIII century. This study shows the implications of these past facts in the present relationship between the physician and other multidisciplinary professionals and the chronic patient families. Several existing concepts of home care and the way this service functions in health institutions were also analyzed, highlighting the important influence of the symbolic meanings of getting sick in the relationship of the health professionals with the patient family, besides other particularities of this close contact that can be verified when the chronic character of the sickness is established and at the time of the death of the patient. This study refers to a qualitative survey conducted on a home care provider. Two questionnaires with open questions were answered by a multidisciplinary team in the beginning and the end of a home assignment. This team also participated on group sessions. The conclusion was that the way the professional gives meaning to the sickness and its context and, in this task, the individual and the cultural dimensions interpenetrate themselves defines the quality of his/her interaction with the rest of the home care agents

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atendimento domiciliário servico de cuidados no lar profissional da saúde home care health professionals doentes -- relacoes com a familia pessoal da area medica -- psicologia psicologia familiares de doentes crônicos doentes -- cuidados no lar relatives of chronic patients

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