Frailty in old age: modalities for care and support

• Grant number: 14/01740-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 10, 2014
• End date: June 09, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Vania Aparecida Gurian Varoto
• Grantee: Francieli Vitolo
• Supervisor: Christine Houston
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: George Brown College, Canada
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/09905-6 - Frailty in old age: arrangements for care and support, BP.IC

Abstract

Along with the aging process, has been observed aspects of frailty that integrate the everyday of longevous people. The organizations that attend frail elderly people are rare in Brazil and that the Long Term Care and the Healthcare through of Hospital and Clinics has greater prominence. Another spaces such as Adult Day Care Center don't are in evidence in Brazil. The Municipal Council of the Elderly (CMI) guided by Elderly Statute verify the operation of organizations that attend elderly and grant their rights. The CMI of the São Carlos, where this research happens, was implemented from 1998 and have relation with Municipal Secretariat for Citizenship and Social Care. Objective: Identify organizations that attend elderly people with characteristics of frailty in the CMI of São Carlos and expand to identify these spaces in Toronto, CA. Methodology: exploratory, descriptive, documentary and retrospective study based on qualitative research. The records, documents and registers of the CMI of São Carlos and in the city of Toronto, CA will be identified and checked. For this it will be used a field guide to register. This work is related to research titled "Articulating Knowledge and Experiences in Gerontology", sponsored by FAPESP, process number 2012/11030-5, and follows the ethical principles in researches. Expected results: Identify organizations registered in the CMI of São Carlos (BR) and in the city of Toronto (CA) that offer services to frail elderly verifying their organizational structure and identify if there is or there isn't a tendency of greater number of services offered to frail elderly people. (AU)