Abstract
to understand elderly people's experiences in emergencies through access to other levels of health care. a phenomenological study in the light of Heidegger, conducted with 19 elderly patients admitted to an Emergency Care Unit of the city of Salvador, between April and October 2019. ontic primacy: Disposition of the experience of elderly people waiting for regulation; Constitutional anguish and fear in the willingness to be an elderly person waiting for regulation in an Emergency Care Unit; Inappropriate elderly being suppressed while waiting for regulation; Being an elderly person unveiled in the existential modality of being for death. Ontological primacy: Heal how to be the presence of elderly people waiting for regulation. elderly people being anguished and afraid, feelings that allow the questioning of their own being, who want a healing and seeks ways that allows an active and proper participation in care.
Highlights
Methodological proceduresThe aging process in Brazil has been gradually increasing due to changes in the last 30 years, which are due to reduction in fertility rates and increase in life expectancy(1)
With this increase in life expectancy, the elderly population growth affected by several comorbidities and chronic diseases, the emergency service has been the main access of these users to health care, highlighting the need to change the care paradigm(2)
This phenomenon is accompanied by distortion of the purpose of Emergency Care Units (ECUs), transformed in practice into short-term inpatient units for clinical conditions, which end up easing lack of beds instead of intending it(3)
Summary
The aging process in Brazil has been gradually increasing due to changes in the last 30 years, which are due to reduction in fertility rates and increase in life expectancy(1) With this increase in life expectancy, the elderly population growth affected by several comorbidities and chronic diseases, the emergency service has been the main access of these users to health care, highlighting the need to change the care paradigm(2). When entering into elderly people’s experiences in emergencies waiting for the regulation of access to health services, it is possible to understand how this being behaves, relates and disposes itself in face of the studied phenomenon. This occurs in the perspective of knowing the original way of being elderly that waits for regulation to other levels of health care, in order to enable alternative ways of improving the quality of access in the public health service through the statement of those who experience the problem
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