<p>This essay’s focus lies on the collaboration that takes place in hospitals and called a care-plan (vårdplanering) between the two organisations: Health-care (landsting) and social-care (kommun). According to the Swedish-law are these organizations responsible for the care of elderly individuals in Sweden. The aim of this essay has been to study closely this collaboration in order to see which partner has the most influencing power.</p><p>This essay is of a qualitative character, which means that the results that are presented are based on six individual interviews with employees from the two organizations. The employees chosen for this essay all have job experiences from the collaboration that takes place during care-plans in hospitals.</p><p>One of the main results of this essay has been that the two organizations are not equal collaboration-partners. All the interviewed individuals talked highly about the importance of collaboration while in reality they end up in an subliminal battle against each other. The main conclusion of this essay is that the focus of a care-plan meeting appears to be on gaining the most power, in order to influence the outcome of a care-plan, rather than giving priority to the elderly individual’s needs and concerns.</p>

This essay’s focus lies on the collaboration that takes place in hospitals and called a care-plan (vårdplanering) between the two organisations: Health-care (landsting) and social-care (kommun). According to the Swedish-law are these organizations responsible for the care of elderly individuals in Sweden. The aim of this essay has been to study closely this collaboration in order to see which partner has the most influencing power. This essay is of a qualitative character, which means that the results that are presented are based on six individual interviews with employees from the two organizations. The employees chosen for this essay all have job experiences from the collaboration that takes place during care-plans in hospitals. One of the main results of this essay has been that the two organizations are not equal collaboration-partners. All the interviewed individuals talked highly about the importance of collaboration while in reality they end up in an subliminal battle against each other. The main conclusion of this essay is that the focus of a care-plan meeting appears to be on gaining the most power, in order to influence the outcome of a care-plan, rather than giving priority to the elderly individual’s needs and concerns.

Os idosos já ocupam 11,3% da população brasileira e isto tem propiciado que a sociedade esteja, cada vez mais, lidando com as questões relacionadas ao envelhecimento. Saber que a população envelhece, mas não procurar entender como isso acontece não prepara a sociedade para este envelhecimento. Deste modo, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi investigar o conceito de saúde, na perspectiva de idosos. Especificamente pretendeu-se analisar: como percebem sua própria saúde, as estratégias para mantê-la e que fatores podem afetá-la. Foi realizada com 12 indivíduos, de ambos os sexos, na faixa etária entre 62 e 81 anos, de camadas média e alta. Eles responderam a uma entrevista composta de questões relacionadas aos objetivos da investigação e os dados sócio-demográficos. Depois de uma analise de conteúdo das entrevistas pode-se constatar que deram grande importância à saúde, ampliando o conceito tradicional deste termo como ausência de doença; e que adotam várias estratégias para mantê-la; as preocupações com familiares apareceram como os principais fatores que afetam sua saúde. Conclui-se que, de maneira geral, eles se perceberam como possuidores de boa saúde. / The elderly now occupies 11.3% of the brazilian population and it has afforded the society for being increasingly dealing with issues related to aging. Knowing that the population aging, but not try to understand how this happens does not prepare for this aging society The objective of this research was to investigate the concept of health from the perspective of the elderly. Specifically it sought to analyze: how they perceive their own health, the strategies to keep it and what factors can affect it. It was conducted with 12 individuals from both sexes, aged between 62 and 81 years of middle and upper social classes. After a content analysis can be seen that they answered to an interview consisting of questions related to the purposes of research and its socio-demographic data. Its possible to be see: the great importance given to health, expanding the traditional concept of this term as absence of disease; they adopt many strategies to keep it;. Concerns about family appeared as the main factors that affect their health. It can be concluded that, in general, they perceived themselves as having good health.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:08:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 carolina_parente_andrade.pdf: 934111 bytes, checksum: eb9161cada6c809e3a9d888debf5f857 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-26 / The elderly now occupies 11.3% of the brazilian population and it has afforded the society for being increasingly dealing with issues related to aging. Knowing that the population aging, but not try to understand how this happens does not prepare for this aging society The objective of this research was to investigate the concept of health from the perspective of the elderly. Specifically it sought to analyze: how they perceive their own health, the strategies to keep it and what factors can affect it. It was conducted with 12 individuals from both sexes, aged between 62 and 81 years of middle and upper social classes. After a content analysis can be seen that they answered to an interview consisting of questions related to the purposes of research and its socio-demographic data. It´s possible to be see: the great importance given to health, expanding the traditional concept of this term as absence of disease; they adopt many strategies to keep it;. Concerns about family appeared as the main factors that affect their health. It can be concluded that, in general, they perceived themselves as having good health. / Os idosos já ocupam 11,3% da população brasileira e isto tem propiciado que a sociedade esteja, cada vez mais, lidando com as questões relacionadas ao envelhecimento. Saber que a população envelhece, mas não procurar entender como isso acontece não prepara a sociedade para este envelhecimento. Deste modo, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi investigar o conceito de saúde, na perspectiva de idosos. Especificamente pretendeu-se analisar: como percebem sua própria saúde, as estratégias para mantê-la e que fatores podem afetá-la. Foi realizada com 12 indivíduos, de ambos os sexos, na faixa etária entre 62 e 81 anos, de camadas média e alta. Eles responderam a uma entrevista composta de questões relacionadas aos objetivos da investigação e os dados sócio-demográficos. Depois de uma analise de conteúdo das entrevistas pode-se constatar que deram grande importância à saúde, ampliando o conceito tradicional deste termo como ausência de doença; e que adotam várias estratégias para mantê-la; as preocupações com familiares apareceram como os principais fatores que afetam sua saúde. Conclui-se que, de maneira geral, eles se perceberam como possuidores de boa saúde.