Promotion and prevention activities in health in an outpatient geront-geriatric unit

Abstract

Studies about elderly changes in muscle-skeletal disorders highlights the health service problems, whichdemands an alternative proposal to minimize the problems caused by those alterations in the daily lifeof the patients. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare the population to understand that process, through knowledge and activities that can promote a better life quality. Objectives: Stimulate undergraduate studentsto learn gerontology / geriatrics / rheumatology; raise the elderly self esteem using the gained knowledgeabout health care; identify elderly principal complaints related to muscle-skeletal changes. Methodology:Initially, undergraduate students participated in an awareness and capacitating process using strategies as:group dynamics, among other techniques; later, thematic workshops were held with elderly selected subjectschose to participate in the project. During the group activities, the developed themes were related to muscle-skeletal changes. Result: awareness and capacitation of 04 undergraduate students from the Medicinecourse in rheumatology and geront-geriatric, greater knowledge about alterations and improvement in thedaily life activities of the 26 elderly participants of the workshops. Conclusion: the developed dynamicsat the workshops provided an improvement in life quality of the elderly that are assisted by that service,minimizing their health problems.