[Public policies for the elderly in Brazil: an integrative review].

This paper is an integrative review analyzing the scientific production and legal documents regarding public policies for the elderly in Brazil. Research was conducted in the Virtual Health Library and Scopus databases, examining publications since 2003. Data were collected from June to September of 2011 using the following key words: "elderly" (idosos), "public policies" (políticas públicas), "elderly person" (pessoa idosa), "aging" (envelhecimento) and "civic participation" (participação cidadã).

[The configuration of the work of nurses in care of the elderly in the Family Healthcare Strategy].

The scope of this article was to describe the configuration of the work of nurses with the elderly within the Family Healthcare Strategy, highlighting the actions in which their activities are concentrated. It involved an exploratory-descriptive study of a qualitative nature, in which the informants were nurses working in the FHS in Florianópolis in the state of Santa Catarina. Data were collected through narrative interviews and the results were subjected to content analysis, resulting in three thematic categories and their subcategories: individual care: nursing consultation with the elderly; collective care: working in groups; home care: the visit as the scope of activity.

[Formation of masters in nursing at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina: contributions under post graduates' view].

The objective of the study is to know the perceptions of graduates of the Masters Course in Nursing at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina with its contributions on formation as regards to professional work. That was a study of qualitative approach, using a questionnaire applied to the egresses of master degree program (last 5 years), totaling 88 informants. Analysis presented elements of the graduates lent in relation to the general evaluation of the course, as related to the same contributions for change at work and the medium evaluation of its objectives.