Gerontotechnology for fall prevention: nursing care for older adults with Parkinson.

Objective: To assess the contribution of gerontotechnologies in nursing care to older adults with Parkinson's disease, aiming at the prevention of falls.

Method: Convergent Assistance Research, through the development and evaluation of gerontechnologies focused on the prevention of falls in older adults with Parkinson's Disease. Clinical evaluation, interviews and workshops with older adults were carried out, as well as analysis and judgment of the materials developed by ten judges certified in gerontology by the Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Institutionalized elderly people with dementia: an integrative review on nursing care.

Objective: To ascertain the characteristics of the nursing care provided to institutionalized elderly people with dementia.

Methods: Integrative review of studies published between 2013 and 2017, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, from the databases BDENF, LILACS, CINAHL, PubMed, SciELO, TRIP, and National Guideline Clearing House. Thematic data analysis was used.

Repercussions of hospitalization due to fall of the elderly: health care and prevention.

Objective: To know the repercussions of the fall reported by the elderly and their caregiver during hospitalization in a public hospital in Florianópolis city from October to December 2014.

Method: Exploratory research with a qualitative approach, conducted by depth interviews with 16 participants, the eight elderly were hospitalized for falls and eight elderly caregivers. Data analysis were performed through the Thematic Content Analysis.

[An integrative review of drug utilization by the elderly in primary health care].

Objective: To identify knowledge produced about drug utilization by the elderly in the primary health care context from 2006 to 2014.

Method: An integrative review of the PubMed, LILACS, BDENF, and SCOPUS databases, including qualitative research papers in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. It excluded papers with insufficient information regarding the methodological description.

[Risk and vulnerability in the practice of professional healthcare].

The purpose of this study is to analyze the risks and vulnerability found in professional healthcare and the safe practices adopted based on academic research in the field of healthcare and nursing, by means of an integrative review. The articles were found in the LILACS and SCIELO databases,from the years 2005-2010, in a search for the descriptors vulnerability, risk, and occupational and personal health risks, establishing a sample of 21 articles. In basic healthcare, risks and vulnerabilities are related to the lack of resources needed for work, physical violence and emotional strain.

[Physical disability in the elderly and accessibility to primary health care: integrative literature review].

This is an integrative literature review of studies on physically disabled elder's access to primary health care, published between 1998 and 2008. The research was performed in: databases, virtual documents from the Health Ministry Library (Brazil), the catalogs of the Nursing Research and Study Center (CEPEN), the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn), and through e-mail consultation of experts. Sixty studies were selected and subjected to thematic analysis.

[Institutionalized elderly: functional capacity and physical fitness].

This study analyzed the relationship between physical fitness and functional capacity in 78 residents of long-stay institutions for low-income elderly located in five regions of Brazil. The majority of the sample consisted of women, and mean age was 77.4 years (SD = 7.

[Urinary incontinence and aging: impact on daily basis and on the quality of life].

Human aging is accompanied by worn out of the physical functions of body and mind as well as a decrease in physiological response to the environment. Consequently these change the quality of life for those going through the aging process, especially regarding independence and autonomy. Among these common aging changes, there is the urinary incontinence having multiple etiologies with great therapeutic complexity, which creates a huge impact on the life quality of these people.

[Dialectics for humanized care in ICU's: contradictions between professional nursing discourse and practice].

This study attempts to unveil contradictions in humanized nursing care in ICUs. It is a qualitative, dialectic-based study involving 7 nurses, 4 family members and one patient of the Adult ICU of the Hospital of the Federal Universityof Santa Catarina. Participatory observation and semi-structured interviews were applied to collect the data.

The health-illness care process and the logic of the nurse's work in the ICU.

The present study aims to learn the health production logic in the ICU based on the discourse defended by nurses and on the professional practice that is recognized by the relatives accompanying the hospitalized patients. This is a qualitative and dialectic investigation performed with seven nurses and five relatives in an ICU for adults of a teaching hospital in Santa Catarina. The theoretical-philosophical referential was based on Marxist and Gramscians readings.

[Teaching apprenticeship in psychiatric nursing: an experience during the postgraduate period].

I present my experience related to an internship on teaching upon developing activities in the discipline of Psychiatric Nursing II, during the Nursing graduation at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in the first semester of 2004. It is a theoretical-practical subject, divided into two blocks. The internships take place in a psychiatric hospital and in the community through domicile visits.