Abstract
ABSTRACT An academic experience report of the university extension project: Mutual Help Group for Relatives of Elderly Living with Alzheimer's or Related Diseases. Alzheimer's is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, which is part of the group of dementias, being characterized by the deterioration of the mental functions resulting in cognitive impairment. Therefore, the family caregivers of elderly patients with Alzheimer's needs care and guidance to promote management and care for themselves and for the patients. It is important to involve health professionals in this scenario, especially nurses, acting directly in the health education process. Thus, the academic involvement in the extension project enriches the college education based on the contact with a certain community and, in this context, provides for further interaction with the complexity involving families and elderly people with Alzheimer's.
Highlights
The Undergraduate Course in Nursing at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) was founded in 1969.1 Since its creation, the course curriculum has been through modifications that permit the further development of nursing, based on teaching, research and extension
Students take the subject Supervised Training,[2] with the aim of preparing future professionals for the job market, allowing them to act in a health service under the supervision of a nurse from the sector, developing and/or improving skills
The grantee is apt to provide health and nursing orientations, regarding the care the family caregivers need to provide to elderly Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) patients as well as their own health
Summary
The Undergraduate Course in Nursing at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) was founded in 1969.1 Since its creation, the course curriculum has been through modifications that permit the further development of nursing, based on teaching, research and extension. Its objective is to prepare critical and reflexive generalist nurses with theoretical-scientific knowledge to work with individuals, families and society, at the different health care levels, with a view to the integrality of care.[2] Nowadays, the course curriculum is organized to prepare nursing professionals in a fiveyear period, with a total hour load of 4,788 class hours, totaling ten course semesters. Students take the subject Supervised Training,[2] with the aim of preparing future professionals for the job market, allowing them to act in a health service under the supervision of a nurse from the sector, developing and/or improving skills. A course conclusion monograph[2] is developed as a requisite to obtain the degree of nurse
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