Health care for the elderly and worker in a home: An experience report

The current approach to the interpretation of anthropometric measurements in the elderly is extremely relevant for the health care of the elderly. Since these parameters contribute to the interpretation of the health status of the elderly. Thus, the objective of this work was to report an experience of health care for the elderly and employees of a Home for the elderly assisted by the Basic Health Unit Benedito Arthur de Carvalho. Elderly people and employees of this Home participated in the activities, whose activities were carried out in May 2022 in the city of Fortaleza. This is an experience report developed from a practical activity carried out through a visit by medical students to the elderly vulnerable social conditions of a nursing home. Body mass index, waist circumference, oxygen saturation, heart rate and blood pressure were evaluated. The cutoff points proposed by the IDF were used for the body mass index. For data analysis, the Shapiro Wilk normality test and the Mann Whitney test were used. The results show that there is no statistically significant difference between the ages and length of stay of the elderly when compared with employees of the long-stay institution (p>0.05). Regarding the anthropometric parameters, it was found that some elderly people had mild hypertension and visceral obesity. Among the social activities were the donation of geriatric diapers and a playful gymkhana. It was found that the elderly in the long-stay institution demonstrate adequate body mass indices with discrete cardiovascular changes. In addition, we can conclude that the social interventions carried out contributed to improving the health care of the elderly in the long-stay institution.