Nursing care for membership habits of elderly living healthy with Health Promotion of the Theory of base
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2015v18i4p269-287Keywords:
Health promotion, Aging health, Nursing Theory.Abstract
This article aims to describe the contribution of educational practices and nursing care, based on the Theory of Health Promotion Nola Pender to healthy habits of life of older people with cardiovascular disease. Search participant type, performed with twelve elderly Health Unit District Family Dom Expedito, in Sobral, Ceará. It was evident that some of the elderly did not have healthy habits of life, so higher risk for cardiovascular disease, are all people living with hypertension and some with diabetes mellitus. This research subsidizes academics and health professionals to awaken the desire to research and carry out care aimed at health promotion with the elderly, and also the need to use theories, it is still incipient references involving the theory of health promotion.