Quedas domiciliares em pessoas idosas: fatores causais e riscos cotidianos

Abstract

Introduction: The falls constitute up in focus of attention of authors of this study that make it searchable by the experience of this event in older people. They can be you consider as the displacement of a point to another. Already the Elder represents a age group the perspective of human vital cycle. General Objective: To describe the domiciliary fall of event in perspective of elderly person. Specific Objectives: Identify the casuistry of home fall of event in perspective of elderly person. Verify everyday exposure to risks of elderly person. Methodology: exploratory-descriptive and Analytical study, performed as 09 of elderly people served by CURE in the period July 2012 to July 2013. There were semi-structured interviews that have been scanned and organized into a database of a research project. Was applied a qualitative thematic approach, from which emerged the categories: Casuistic of household falls and The everyday exposure to risks of Elder, these respectively reveal the number of falls, height, site, the consequences for everyday activities and; exposure to social, ergonomic, technological and organizational risks. The ethical aspects were attended upon approval in the Research Ethics Committee, seem 689 306 and use of of Consent Term of Free and Clarified. Displaying: For the first category the results indicated recurrence of falls in the elderly. Already in the second maintaining a routine exposure to risks and inactivity. Conclusion: The nursing by be a profession whose purpose is in promote care, has in the elderly population a growing and innovative the labor market. And for if insert-in this, requires strengthen their knowledge and initiatives for processing and consolidation 'health surveillance model.