Profile of the Senior Citizens of the Center Day for the Elderly "The White Hand"
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2018v21i2p393-405Keywords:
Gerontology, Day Care, Social work, Longevity, Quality of life.Abstract
In June 2016, the Associação Beneficente “A Mão Branca” de Amparo aos Idosos has inaugurated a Day Care aiming the partially dependent elderly. This article has the object goal to present the indicators related to the elderly beneficiaries of this servisse from June 2016 to September 2017. Twenty-four seniors 84 years old on average, were enrolled in the service, 67% of them were female. The main demand for the service comes from the elderly 's family, whose concerns about their senior relatives idleness and lack of social interaction, urge them to look for our support expertise. Complaints related to the elderly memory are also strong reasons for the increase of our service demand. Further studies are necessary on this new modality of caring.