Elderly caring for elderly
Costa Pacheco M.J., Costa Pacheco M.P., Medeiros Botelho M.O., Rodrigues Amaral P., Correia Pacheco R.J.

SUMMARY

   Aging is a complex process, continuous and irreversible, a phenomenon to which Portuguese population is not stranger. With longevity the elderly becomes less autonomous, depending on the case of others, starting to emerge a growing number of elderly much more elderly, many of them taking care of another elder. In the present nurses should give special attention to this phenomenon in order to provide better support to the elderly caregivers of the elderly, who also have geriatrics problems, proving a greater satisfaction in the acquisition and maintenance of this role and in this way promoting self-governing and minimizing the dependency of the cared elder.

KEY WORDS

    Aging, psychological support, education/information, social system of assistance, profile of the informal elder caregiver.

Vol. 18 nº3-2007