Avaliação da qualidade de vida dos idosos assistidos na instituição de longa permanência abrigo São José de Macapá - AP

Abstract

The increasing elderly population, in part by the increase in life expectancy, resulted in a greater demand for long-stay institutions for this population. However, the institutionalization process often comes with serious abandonment issues, and is associated with mental deficit and particular physical limitations of each individual resident in these institutions. The institutionalization process generally creates a stressful situation and triggers of depression can lead to worsening of identity, self-esteem and directly affect the quality of life. The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of life of institutionalized elderly in Abrigo São José, located in the city of Macapa-AP, only institution of long permanence of the State of Amapá. For this, the Quality of Life Scale WHOQOL-BREF of the World Health Organization and implementation of a socio-demographic questionnaire produced by the authors will be used. The WHOQOL-brev Scale has four main domain (physical, psychological, environmental and social relations) and two questions that make up independent domains that relate to quality of life and satisfaction with health. He attempted to relate different characteristics for the clinical epidemiological profile of the population's quality of life life of the sample through the study of these domains. 35 elderly residents were examined in Abrigo São José. It was noted predominance of males, with ages generally less than 80 years, low education, low income and presenting and hypertension, eye diseases and neurological in greater incidence in this study. Regarding quality of life, WHOQOL-Bref instrument showed a negative evaluation of the same in the physical, intermediate domain in psychological and environmental, and positive in the areas of social relations. It can be concluded that the overall study is according to the literature, however, due to the complexity of the clinical and epidemiological profile of the geriatric population some items analyzed should be evaluated carefully, in order to be adapted to reality and local peculiarities that the elderly are inserted.