Miriam Aparecida

TAKING CARE OF THE ELDERLY MOTHER IN HOMECARE CONTEXT: DAUGHTERS PERSPECTIVE 1

Qualitative study based on the Social Phenomenology of Alfred Schutz with the aim of understanding the care for the dependent elderly mother from the daughters point of view. Achieved in 2011 with ten participants, who were interviewed at home from their mothers.The typical caring daughters action makes her as being the one who establishes a caring relation focused by preoccupation with the situation of the elderly mothers dependency, which generates one inversion of roles from mother and daughter. It shows a physical, physic and emotional wearing resulting from the day by day caring, needing a social support to help her in this care. Looking forward to keeping the mothers life and postponing as much as possible the end of her life. This result arising to the care professionals concerning planning and achieving the home care to think in effective articulation between the requirements both daughter and elderly mothers show. DESCRIPTORS: Nursing. Aging. Family relations. Caregivers. Qualitative research.Estudo qualitativo fundamentado na Fenomenologia Social de Alfred Schutz, com o objetivo de compreender o cuidado a mae idosa dependente, na perspectiva de filhas. Realizado em 2011, com dez participantes, as quais foram entrevistadas no domicilio de suas maes. As caracteristicas tipicas da acao das filhas cuidadoras constituem-nas como sendo aquelas que estabelecem uma relacao de cuidado marcada pela preocupacao com a situacao de dependencia da mae idosa, o que gera uma inversao de papeis de mae e filha. Apresentam um desgaste fisico, psiquico e emocional decorrente do cuidar cotidiano, necessitando de uma rede de suporte social para auxilia-las nesse cuidado. Busca preservar a vida de sua mae e postergar o quanto possivel seu termino. Este resultado suscita que os profissionais de saude ao planejarem e realizarem o cuidado domiciliar, pensem em uma articulacao efetiva entre as demandas que filhas e maes idosas apresentam.