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Cuidadores informais de pessoas com demência: a realidade do Concelho de Castro Marim
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Nos últimos anos temos assistido a um envelhecimento acentuado da população portuguesa e consequentemente ao surgimento de várias patologias associadas, com especial foco nas demências, sendo esta a doença mais comum à medida que a idade avança.
As repostas sociais para esta faixa etária têm-se mostrado insuficientes ou inacessíveis, uma vez que, se encontram lotadas ou são demasiado dispendiosas. Consequentemente temos assistido a um maior número de cuidadores informais que prestam cuidados, muitas vezes sem formação ou qualquer experiência, nas suas casas ou nas casas dos idosos. Ser-se cuidador de alguém não é uma tarefa fácil e pode complicar-se exacerbadamente se a pessoa cuidada possuir algum tipo de demência.
O Algarve é uma das regiões do país mais afetada pelo rápido envelhecimento populacional, sendo a presente investigação centrada num dos concelhos do Sotavento Algarvio, o concelho o Castro Marim, que apresenta um elevado índice de envelhecimento da sua população.
A escassez das respostas existentes para fazer face às necessidades dos cuidadores informais de pessoas com demência, faz surgir a necessidade de desenvolver a presente investigação, que tem como principal objetivo o estudo do impacto das demências, nos cuidadores informais. Para tal recorreu-se a um estudo qualitativo, com entrevistas semiestruturadas a uma amostra de 11 cuidadores informais de pessoas com demência residentes no concelho de Castro Marim. Os principais resultados indicam que estes cuidadores precisam que haja uma intervenção urgente para fazer face às suas necessidades, uma vez que se encontram isolados, sem tempo para si e não contam com nenhuma resposta social/projeto que as minimize.
Over the last years there’s been a marked aging of the Portuguese population and therefore the emergence of various associated pathologies, with a special focus on dementias, which is the most common disease due to aging. Social responses to this age group have been shown to be insufficient or inaccessible, as they are full or otherwise too expensive. Consequently, we have seen a greater number of informal caregivers who provide care, often without training or any experience, either in their homes or in the elderly’s homes. To be someone’s caregiver is not an easy task and this can be exacerbated if the person being cared for has some sort of dementia. The Algarve is one of the most affected regions in the country by a rapidly aging population, therefore the present research is focused on one of the municipalities on eastern Algarve, Castro Marim, which presents a high rate of aging population. The scarcity of existing answers to meet the needs of informal caregivers to people with dementia, raises de need to develop the present research, whose main objective is to study the impact of dementias on the informal caregivers. With this end in mind, a qualitative study was used, with semi-structured interviews to a sample of 11 informal caregivers to people with dementia living in the municipality of Castro Marim. The main results indicate that these caregivers need urgent intervention to meet their needs, as they are isolated, with no time for themselves and there’s no social response or project to minimize them.
Over the last years there’s been a marked aging of the Portuguese population and therefore the emergence of various associated pathologies, with a special focus on dementias, which is the most common disease due to aging. Social responses to this age group have been shown to be insufficient or inaccessible, as they are full or otherwise too expensive. Consequently, we have seen a greater number of informal caregivers who provide care, often without training or any experience, either in their homes or in the elderly’s homes. To be someone’s caregiver is not an easy task and this can be exacerbated if the person being cared for has some sort of dementia. The Algarve is one of the most affected regions in the country by a rapidly aging population, therefore the present research is focused on one of the municipalities on eastern Algarve, Castro Marim, which presents a high rate of aging population. The scarcity of existing answers to meet the needs of informal caregivers to people with dementia, raises de need to develop the present research, whose main objective is to study the impact of dementias on the informal caregivers. With this end in mind, a qualitative study was used, with semi-structured interviews to a sample of 11 informal caregivers to people with dementia living in the municipality of Castro Marim. The main results indicate that these caregivers need urgent intervention to meet their needs, as they are isolated, with no time for themselves and there’s no social response or project to minimize them.
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Cuidador informal Idoso Demências Cuidar com personhood.