O idoso e o serviço de emergência hospitalar: investigação dos significados da velhice para a equipe de saúde

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the meaning of the old age for the health team of a private Emergency Unit at a hospital at the City of São Paulo. Data collection was based on anthropology observation of the group and diary notes. It intents to reveal the place of the old age in the institutional culture. For this reason, we looked for informations that could describe the structure and socialization of the Emergency Service as the role of many characters of this scenery. This paper was constructed by the interest to disclose the meaning of the old age for the health professionals that work at an Emergency Unit, based on a new view. This new view attentive to the words pronunciation and the attitudes. This research revealed by histories that the health team, independently of the assistance quality, takes care of the old age people mixed by stigmas. It s certainly necessary to check concepts about the process of getting old.