Educação em saúde envolvendo cuidadores de idosos no ambiente domiciliar

Abstract

The present report aims to share the experience gained by undergraduate students of medicine during supervised training in Collective Health at a Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) through the Project “Best Age Week: multiplying and promoting healthcare”. By means of workshops and small group conversations, strategies and actions were developed for the training of caregivers. This was based on the multiplier role of community health workers, as well as other team members of the Family Health Strategy (FHS). Among the contributions of this project, the following acquisition of skills and competencies for the training of general practitioners should be highlighted: integration; community education; organization of activities in health education; and technical/humanistic improvement in comprehensive care for the elderly. In conclusion, this project was able to achieve its proposed initial theoretical objective by going beyond the university setting and sharing the knowledge acquired during their studies with the community