Sistema colaborativo para engajamento familiar no cuidado de idosos

Abstract

Aging brings countless limitations in life, making most of them dependent of third party care. A lot of this care are provided by the family of the elderly, specifically by one person, denominated family caregiver. Though there is many debates about healthy aging, there is very few studies about the people who gives the care for the elderly and the implications that this care generates in the lives of these people. It is common that the family caregiver develop healthy issues due the overload from the care for the elderly. Base in this questioning, this work has the goal to present Cara Guide, a mobile application that aims to split the tasks between the family to decrease the workload from the family caregiver. For the development of this study were made researches of theoretical nature about the overload of the family caregiver and existing collaborative systems for elderly care. Were also made interviews with family caregivers and a questionnaire was applied online to understand the routine of the elderlies. After the development of the application, were made an evaluation applying a user’s diary technique and it could be noticed that the application acted as a tool for management support and care tasks division, decreasing the overload of the family caregivers.