Care to the depressed senior and institutionalized to the light of the Complexity

Abstract

Institutions of Long Stay for the Elderly (ILPI) are establishments for integral service, institutionalizing 60 year-old people and plus, dependents/or no, that don't have conditions to stay with the family or in their home. The institucionalization can unchain diseases, among them the depression. The objective of this updating article was to do a reflection about the relationship of the care to the depressed senior and resident in ILPI with three beginnings of the Complexity according to Edgar Morin. First, we make reflections about the complexity; then, we link the care to the depressed senior and resident in ILPI, with the beginnings: dialogical, recursive and hologrammar.  We realised that the Complexity can sustain theoretically, not only the understanding of the phenomenon depression in the resident senior in an ILPI, as well as to inspire the way of taking care that it addresses the workers of the health, that act the senior person close to, they approach the senior in a more global way. For so much the Multidimensional Senior's Evaluation  should be used, it evaluates the senior person's several dimensions, contributing in the development of a care/treatment plan and multiact attendance and interdisciplinary appropriate. The Complexity has been used, for nurses, to understand the nursing better and to render more appropriate care to the human being.

Key words: Geriatric Nursing; Health of Institutionalized Elderly; Delivery of Health Care.