Challenges in organizing care networks for the elderly in two regions of Brazil / Desafios na organizacao de redes de atencao aos idosos em duas regioes do Brasil
Cad. saúde pública
;
26(7): 1314-1322, jul. 2010. tab
Article
in English
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| ID: lil-553515
RESUMO
Confirma-se, no Brasil, uma tendencia mundial do envelhecimento populacional. A sociedade brasileira passa por intenso processo de transformacao, onde adultos jovens aparecem cada vez em menor numero, cabendo a reflexao quem vai cuidar dos nossos idosos no seculo XXI? A estruturacao de redes de atencao a pessoa idosa e urgente, abrangendo cuidados primarios, incluindo cuidados com a moradia habitacao saudavel, garantindo acesso aos niveis secundario e terciario de cuidados, proporcionando diagnostico precoce e rapido acesso ao tratamento. Este artigo relata duas experiencias brasileiras a reestruturacao de um abrigo de idosos indigentes, com 500 internos no Rio de Janeiro, onde foi realizado um amplo processo de humanizacao, com forte componente reestruturacao fisica das edificacoes de 1930; e o processo de organizacao da linha de cuidado de atencao ao idoso no Grupo Hospitalar Conceicao, no Rio Grande do Sul, complexo de atencao a saude com unidades de saude diversificadas, englobando todos os momentos da atencao dos cuidados primarios ao mais complexo tratamento hospitalar.
ABSTRACT
The global trend of ageing populations is present in Brazil. Brazilian society is going through an intensive process of transformation, where young adults are increasingly fewer, thus raising the question of who will take care of the elderly in the 21st Century? There is an urgent need to establish care networks for the elderly, covering primary care, including care with housing (Healthy Housing), as well as to ensure access to secondary and tertiary levels of care, providing early diagnoses and rapid access to treatment. This article reports two Brazilian experiences the restructuring of a shelter for elderly indigents, with 500 elderly residents in Rio de Janeiro, which involved a broad process of humanization, with strong physical restructuring of the buildings that dated from 1930; and the process of organizing the care referral line for the elderly within the Conceicao Hospital Group, in Rio Grande do Sul State, which included a health care complex with diverse health units, encompassing all stages of care from primary care to the most complex hospital treatment.
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Main subject:
Primary Health Care
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Health of the Elderly
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Housing for the Elderly
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Health Services for the Aged
Type of study:
Screening study
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Cad. saúde pública
Journal subject:
Public Health
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Toxicology
Year:
2010
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz/BR
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Universidade Federal do Piaui/BR
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/BR
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