Professional Narratives about Older Adults and Health Services Responsive to Fall-Inducing Frailty

The second external cause of death from unintentional injuries is falls in people over 60 and is a worldwide Public Health problem. Associated factors are identified early in Primary Health Care. Thus, we analyze professional narratives about older adults/old age and the organization of services in...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 20; no. 21; p. 6975
Main Authors Xavier, Laudicéia Noronha, do Nascimento, Vânia Barbosa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 25.10.2023
Subjects
Access to information
Adults
Age groups
Aging
Autonomy
Demography
Falls
Frailty
Geriatrics
Gerontology
Global health
Habitus
Health care
Health services
Medical personnel
Narratives
Older people
Physiology
Population
Primary care
Public health
Brazil
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Summary:The second external cause of death from unintentional injuries is falls in people over 60 and is a worldwide Public Health problem. Associated factors are identified early in Primary Health Care. Thus, we analyze professional narratives about older adults/old age and the organization of services in the presence of fall-inducing frailty. A structured narrative was applied under the following stages: understanding the context, setting/plot/character analysis, and interpretive synthesis. Data were collected from August to November 2022, distributing 21 health professionals in three Narrative Focus Groups. In the analyses, the collective conceptions dialogued with Bourdieu’s Epistemology of field, habitus, and capital. Technical and common sense representations of older adults were simultaneously observed among the results, along with the belief of old age as a problematic life stage. Care is centered on the installed disease/ailment. Encouraging autonomy and self-care emerges in integrative health practices, which older adults underestimate. Professionals access the lives of older adults according to their habitus, which, in turn, is structured (structuring) in the disputes for installed capital. Thus, the care provided disregards subjectivities and symbolic systems associated with falls.
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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph20216975