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- Title
Family caregiver of older adults and Cultural Care in Nursing care.
- Authors
Alcimar Marcelo do Couto; Célia Pereira Caldas; Edna Aparecida Barbosa de Castro
- Abstract
Objective: To analyze the experiences of family caregivers of dependent older adults, who show performance overload and emotional distress, using the Theory of Culture Care. Method: Qualitative study with nine caregivers of home care dependent older adults, based on Grounded Theory. Results: The findings allowed the identification of potentialities and frailties in the context of family home care and subsidizing the construction of a theoretical scheme resulting from the analysis of possibilities of the nursing care practice according to the culture, through the three modes of action: maintenance, adjustment and repatterning of cultural care. Final considerations: Respecting the cultural values and family beliefs, the nurse can help to institute mutually established changes, promoting a better quality in the nursing care relationship and a relief to the strain of the role of the caregiver.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CAREGIVERS; CONCEPTUAL structures; CULTURE; FAMILIES; HEALTH attitudes; HOME nursing; NURSING models; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSCULTURAL nursing; QUALITATIVE research; BURDEN of care; DIARY (Literary form); FIELD notes (Science)
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 3, p959
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0105