THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION ABOUT ELDERLY PEOPLEINSTITUTIONALIZATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

• Main Authors: Ana Paula Lima, Maria de Fátima Mantovani, Elis Martins Ulbrich, Evana Terezinha de Castro Zavadil
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2009-09-01
• Series: Cogitare Enfermagem
• Subjects: Institutionalization; Aged people; Nursing care
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i4.16393

Bibliographic research on the production of scientific knowledge about “elderly people institutionalization”in Brazil. Health-related periodicals and journals published between 2003 and 2008 were consulted. Full text articlesavailable on the Internet or in the Library of Health Sciences of the Federal University of Paraná containing the terms:institutionalized elder, institutionalization of elderly people, elder inpatient, inpatient care for elderly people, nursing careand gerontological nursing in the title or as descriptors, and also those containing the description of the methodologicalprocedure adopted were included. The 38 articles were classified into the following four categories: epidemiologicalaspects, care and caregivers, specific of institutionalization and others were selected. We found that most articles focusedon collective health and there was no practical model for inpatient care for elderly people.