Nursing assessment for an elder person served in the Program Primary Care
Montserrat Puig Llobet, Carmen Moreno Arroyo

SUMMARY

    Home care program is chosen in our case to identify the role that nurses in the detection of the needs of elderly dependents. The pourpose to present the status of a dependent elderly receiving home care service of the Center for Primary Care Vilafranca del Penedès. The patient has hypertension, noninsulin-dependent diabetes and arthritis.

    It has a moderate dependence in basic activities and instrumental activities of daily living.

    According to Gordon patterns have been found five patterns and altered according to the NANDA taxonomy has identified eight diagnoses.

KEY WORDS

   Home care, dependency, nursing diagnoses, needs, health patterns, elderly.

Vol. 22 nº4-2011