Multiprofessional performance: the importance of evaluating the patient's social context

This work discusses important aspects of the multiprofessional performance, which under an interdisciplinary perspective, is fundamental in the transformation of the existing model of health care. This process requires the appropriation of a new way of acting, capable of increasing the participation of individuals in their health-disease process. Interventions performed by a multidisciplinary team are fundamental for comprehensive patient care, where the social, psychological and environmental aspects are incorporated in the health evaluation, at the same level of relevance of the biological aspects. The importance of implementing the use of assessment tools for the social context adapted to the Brazilian context in the evaluations of the multiprofessional teams was identified, specifically the Gijón Socio familiar Assessment Scale, which is able to indicate possible situations of risk or social problems experienced by the elderly.