O ageísmo nos cuidados de saúde: Uma Revisão Sistemática

Abstract

Amidst the growing natural aging the world population and the lack of distinction between the natural and pathological processes of aging, ageism arises. The aim this study is to analyze the expression of ageism in health care, as well as being investigated in the literature and its outcome for health of the elderly. The data were searched in the bases: Scielo, Lilacs, PsicINFO, Scopus, Web of Science and Pubmed with the search key: “ageism AND aged AND healthcare” and “ageism AND aged AND healthcare”. Of 342 articles, 64 were selected, the introductions and conclusions the studies were extracted and two textual corpus were created, analyzed by the Descending Hierarchical Classification (CHD) of the Iramuteq software. The corpus indicated 2 classes, the first linked to the concept ageism and occurrence in the health environment. The second was related to the forms of investigation of this prejudice. The second corpus also resulted in two, the first related to suggestions for further studies, the second presented the negative aspects. Given the above, the presence ageism and its consequences for the health of the elderly is evident. Finally, studies point to educational strategies on ageism and aging as a way to combat this prejudice.