Nursing care technologies for elderly people with chronic non-communicable diseases

Objective: To identify nursing care technologies for the elderly with chronic non-communicable diseases. Methods: integrative literature review consisting of six steps. Data collection took place in May 2019, in the PUBMED, LILACS and BDENF databases, with the descriptors "Technology", "Chronic Disease", "Nursing Care" and "Elderly", delimited by the Boolean operator "AND". For the international databases, the corresponding descriptors in Medical Subject Headings were used. Eleven original manuscripts were included in Portuguese, English and Spanish, available in full and published between 2008 and 2018. The data were analyzed in a descriptive way, organized in summary tables and in analytical categories: light and light-hard technologies for the nursing care for the elderly with chronic diseases and harsh technologies for nursing care for the elderly with chronic diseases. Results: Of the manuscripts, 10 (90.90%) were found in the PUBMED database and 01 (9.09%) in LILACS. 10 (90.90%) of them were published in English. As for the level of evidence, six (54.54%) studies had level VI. Five (45.45%) surveys referred to light-hard technology, five (45.45%) to hard technology and one (9.09%) to light technology. Conclusion: the results of this study are useful for identifying technologies for nursing care for the elderly with chronic non-communicable diseases, being a source for expanding the knowledge of nurses in care practice that serve this specific audience.