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Introduction.– Autonomy in the performance of daily living activities
(DLA) are of extreme importance to the elder’s life. On pair
with aging, the institutionalized elder, suffers a transition process
from the changes of context from home to institution. This fact
increases the elder’s dependency on self-care. By so, it is important
to study the dependency degree in self-care in institutionalized
elders, in order to rethink interventions to answer context changes
and improve transition.
Objective.– Identify the dependency degree in the institutionalized
elder; explore the use of support products (SP) in self care and
existance of structural barriers.
Methods.– An exploratory-descriptive study, with a nonprobabilistic
convinience sample was developed in two nursing
homes. Instrument used was Hernâni’s Form (2009).
Results.– In a total of 84 elders, averaging 87 years, with a minimum
of 68 and maximum of 102 years, 45% widows, 17% analphabets,
being the majority women (84%), 39% refered dependency of others
as the motive for institutionalization. Bath self-care dependency
was the highest self-care with dependency of the evaluated, with
79%presentedsomedegree of dependency. Eating self-careshowed
the least degree of dependency (43%). Structural barriers found
were steps with ramp, the SPs found were almost inexistence, being
lateral support bars the most common.
Conclusions.– The dependency degree of some self-cares lack interventions
that target autonomy. As so, we consider that nurses
should evaluate the elder’s potential for learning of new skills in
order to reconstruct the process of autonomy, decreasing levels of
dependency and increasing quality life.
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SOUSA, Joana; SILVA, Rosa Carla Gomes da; FERREIRA, Bruno; NEVES, Bruno - Dependency in selfcare in the institutionalized elder: A descriptive study. In 9th Congress of the EUGMS, Venice, Italy, 2-4 October 2013 – In European Geriatric Medicine. ISSN 1878-7649. (2013) S81-S141