Assistência de enfermagem a pacientes idosos em cuidados paliativos: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

The theme of this work is "nursing care for elderly patients in palliative care". The importance of this study is to demonstrate that palliative care can offer better quality of life and comfort to the patient during treatment when well applied. In addition, it is a bibliographical research with a qualitative approach, carried out in the period from March to July 2024, in which, through the research, 83,030 articles on the subject were found and of these 45 articles were selected through the inclusion method, which after reading the abstract of each of them, only 27 were elected and only 10 were read in full, of these, 03 articles were used in a table to identify the main challenges of palliative care. The objectives of the work are to realize the challenges of palliative care for the elderly and, in the end, to prepare a pocket guide on the importance of this care for this age group in order to guide the target audience to seek these assistance services. Thus, for the theoretical construction, the selected articles were used and also the entities responsible for the action in relation to palliative care in the national territory, it is cited: National Academy of Palliative Care - ANCP and, as theoretical support, Pereira et al (2022) and Paraizo-Horvath (2022) were used. As a result of this bibliographic research, it was obtained, through the systematization of the data in two tables, the main challenges, which are grief and aging, and the preparation of the pocket guide