Influence of the psychosocial welfare of the elderly in the facing of health adversities: experience report

Abstract

The objective is to report the experience of family approach activities carried out with an elderly patient, broad history of coping with health and social adversities, assisted in the Family Health Strategy. It is a descriptive study, type of experience report, experienced from home visits by first year medical students, under the guidance of two teachers, in a family nucleus resident in neighborhood Castelão (Fortaleza / CE). Through the application of family approach tools, it was noticed that psychosocial factors tend to influence the quality of life, the perception of the disease and the performance of health actions for the elderly, which contributes on the well-being of senility. The experience got rich the formation of students by stimulating the expansion of knowledge focused on the precepts of Person-Centered Medicine, encouraging differentiated recognition of the individual, his family context and his social insertion.