Tecnologias utilizadas por enfermeiros na assistência domiciliária de idosos: revisão integrativa

Abstract

Introduction: Population aging is characterized as a worldwide phenomenon and health technologies represent an important tool to meet the needs of this part of the population. Objective: To analyze the scientific production about the technologies used by nurses in the home care of the elderly in primary care. Methodology: This is an integrative review of literature conducted in the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE) databases, accessed through the Public Medline (PubMed), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (Lilacs) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), through the descriptors: technologies, nursing, elderly, home care and primary care and their correspondents in English. Including original articles, with no publication deadline, in Portuguese and English, with people aged 60 and over. Results: The studies studied worked mainly with light and light-hard technologies, followed by the hard technologies of care for the elderly. In the light technologies the subjects of communication with the elderly and health education with the elderly and their caregiver were worked. In hard technologies, the use of computer programs and electronic systems for the management of medicines was exemplified. Conclusion: It was concluded that there are insufficient studies that address the use of hard technologies by the nurse and its implementation with the elderly, requiring more investments to establish adequate conditions for research and innovation in this area.