PROGRAMA DE CUIDADO DOMICILIAR: O CUIDADOR ENTRE QUATRO PAREDES

Abstract

This paper has as main objective analyzing the repercussions of the Home Care Program deployed by the National Health Policy in family caregivers, to understand how they experience the process of taking care, considering the public policies that take responsibility for the patient‟s care and at the same time leave them unassisted. It presents the care in a historical-critical perspective, highlighting its meaning to the ones who take care, as an unrecognized job that demands attention, zeal and skills in the care of another person. It problematizes the changes provoked by the home care and presents the survey realized in the Basic Health Units of Schools in the city of Pelotas, which used as main instrument the realization of open interviews. Ten family caregivers of adult patients in care for more than 30 days and of relatives deceased until three months before were interviewed. The analysis traces a profile of the caregivers showing that the repercussions produced in their lives create an illness worsened by the lack of assistance. Given this a proposal is presented about the possible contribution of the social worker in the Home Care Program focusing the caregiver