“Só Passando Pra Saber”: os desafios enfrentados pelos acompanhantes de idosos hospitalizados

Abstract

The present work of conclusion of course, entitled "Just passing to know": the challenges faced by the accompanying elderly hospitalized patients, aims to identify the challenges of being a companion for hospitalized elderly people in hospitals, tracing the profile of the companions, identifying the activities performed by the companions of the hospitalized elderly, to analyze the relationship of the multidisciplinary team with the companions and relatives of the elderly during the hospitalization process. This may reflect on the right of the hospitalized elderly and their accompaniment. This research is based on a bibliographical study of articles, books, magazines using databases and databases. This is an exploratory study, given the need to uncover an approach that is not present in the literature: the family's view of the hospitalization experience. The analytical descriptive character of the study is anchored in the currents of the comprehensive theories of sociological thought, which considers the subjects' actions and the social representation of their experiences. As a specific technique for collecting this data, we used Google Docs forms, a package of Google applications, to apply the questionnaires, using the social networks to make an invitation and response with a link to conduct the research. Data were collected in January 2018 and a total of 50 participants were obtained. Content analysis was used as a means of interpreting research data. It is concluded that accompanying a hospitalized elderly person reveals that it is not only a role of ensuring a better quality of life, the experiences of this process show difficulties, needs, worries, conflicts and demands. The realization of this study in the perspective of the theoretical framework of aging and the hospitalization process in Brazil made it possible to construct the history of the experiences of the accompanying relatives of the elderly in hospitalization situation and the understanding of the thematic nuclei extracted from them. The findings of the present study may support, along with the other productions that make the same convergences, to strengthen the process of human aging.