Integralidade da saúde do idoso na atenção primária à saúde uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

The world's population has been undergoing a process of demographic transition, arising from low fertility rates and increased life expectancy. These facts challenges the care networks as well as the team of professionals to put the health of the elderly in the action agendas, in order to contemplate the principles of the Health System, of among which the principle of comprehensiveness. This study aims to identify which are the scientific evidence about the comprehensiveness of the elderly health in primary health care. The research was performed in the databases LILACS, PubMed and Scopus, considering publications from 1982. The descriptores were used according to the index of Descriptors in Health Sciences and the descriptores suggested by the Medical Subject Headings. The data were collected from August to October 2015 and 14 articles were included in the corpus of the text. After analysis of the articles emerged three categories: access to primary care with a view to comprehensiveness; health services, professional and comprehensiveness care; home care and family support; which can be understood as scientific evidence. Although necessary, the comprehensiveness care of the elderly health are not yet a reality becoming a challenge in Primary Healthcare.