Relatório de estágio

Abstract

In an increasingly aging population in which the dependency ratio of elderly people is also high, the increased need to support these dependents has led to informal caregivers take care of these people in home environment. Thus, after the initial diagnosis of a health population, concluded that one of the factors that most affect the informal caregiver is the lack of information about the prevention of pressure ulcers, which contributes to increasing the role of caregiver burden informal. The intervention project, run by me, was primarily related to the high risk of pressure ulcers and the users' information deficit on the part of caregivers identified for this priority. To achieve this study were applied to informal caregivers, forms that included validated rating scales, and the sample was equal to the total population. The results were processed using descriptive statistics for later analysis, through which concluded that the lack of knowledge and information for caregivers on the prevention of the occurrence of pressure ulcers, contributes to the increased risk of incidence of the same and the increased effects of caregiver burden, interfering and jeopardizing the healthand quality of life of the same, the elderly and dependent on the entire family unit

Date of Award	May 2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	António Joaquim Rocha Festa (Supervisor)