The elderly blood donor and the hemotherapic nurse’s care

Abstract

This study focuses on the hemotherapic nurse’s care to the elderly blood donors. Blood donation is an act of autonomy, maturity and social responsibility, to be done during the individual’s whole life. Brazilian population is living a healthy aging process, and requires attention, orientation and education to be blood donors in all ages. Our theoretical reflection is about elderly blood donors as hemotherapic nurse’s clients. The objective of the study is a discussion about hemotherapic nurse’s care to elderly blood donor. Nurses that works in the screening blood donor process are taken care of the population, as they are committed with the care of blood donors. The nursing care of elderly blood donor involving cultural, social-economic, better quality of life and disease-health process, should consider the health needs of the elderly blood donors in a perspective of care, attending to the Unic Health Sistem and the Ministery of Health dispositions.