Cuidadores familiares de pessoas com Alzheimer: como facilitar a rotina

Abstract

Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease, which consists of memory loss and a progressive decrease in cognitive abilities. This disease demands long-term treatment, implying - often - the need for a close person to be in charge of performing tasks to help the patient in question. Thus, this course conclusion work aims to understand the main complaints of family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's. After collecting data from bibliographic research and quantitative and qualitative questionnaires, the necessary information will be acquired for the development of a technological artifact that can help these caregivers to develop their own routine and a less stressful, difficult and more informative patient care routine. and didactic. This artifact will be a facilitator and an encyclopedia, so that family caregivers can organize themselves in relation to the treatment of the sick and learn about the disease, treatments, studies, connections, among others