Health promotion in elderly deaf people of the deaf community

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https://doi.org/10.5216/revufg.v20.66751

Abstract

Abstract: This paper exposes an experience in the field of health
showing a health promotion project in collaboration with the Deaf
Community and addressed to elderly deaf people. Nursing students
carried out this project in their Final Degree Project in the Service-Learning
modality. An intervention was framed in a health education
program, that consisted of 3 sessions of 2 hours each, it was carried
out with a group of 20 elderly deaf people in which aspects of healthy
aging were addressed in a theoretical and practical way (physical
activity and exercise; healthy eating; healthy sleep and rest; and
diseases prevalent in the population). For the students and for the
Deaf Community the experience turned out to be very satisfactory,
resulting in this very enriching experience at the level of learning and
acquisition of skills in community work, as well as at the level of contact
with the Deaf Community.

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Author Biographies

Meritxell Segovia-Quiñones, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Cataluña, España, merisequi@gmail.com

Nursing degreee

Vera Ponce-López, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Cataluña, España, veraponcelopez@gmail.com

Graduada en Enfermería por la Universidad de Barcelona. Actualmente cursando Máster de Enfermería Perioperatoria por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Trabaja como enfermera asistencial en el Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

Neuma Chaveiro, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil, neumachaveiro@ufg.br

Fonoaudiologa. Doutora da Universidade Federal de Goiás/UFG com Pós-Doutorado pela Universidade de Barcelona/UB. Profesora da Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Faculdade de Letras, Goiânia, Goiás Brasil,

Eva Gómez-Rodríguez, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Cataluña, España, egomez1@clinic.cat

Enfermera. Master en Cuidados Enfermeros: Metodologías y Aplicaciones por la Universitat de Barcelona. Profesora Asociada de l’Escola d’Infermeria, Departamento de Infermeria Fonamental i Medicoquirúrgica de la Facultad de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut de la Universitat de Barcelona. Enfermera asistencial en el Servicio de Urgencias del Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

Dolors Rodríguez-Martín, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Cataluña, España, dolorsrodriguezmart@ub.edu

Enfermera y Antropóloga. Doctora en Antropologia Social y Cultural por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Master en Investigación Etnográfica, Teoría Antropológica y Relaciones Interculurales. Profesora de l’Escola d’Infermeria, Departamento de Infermeria Fonamental i Medicoquirúrgica de la Facultad de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut de la Universitat de Barcelona.

 

Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

SEGOVIA-QUIÑONES, M.; PONCE-LÓPEZ, V.; CHAVEIRO, N.; GÓMEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, . E.; RODRÍGUEZ-MARTÍN, D. Health promotion in elderly deaf people of the deaf community. Revista UFG, Goiânia, v. 20, n. 26, 2020. DOI: 10.5216/revufg.v20.66751. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/revistaufg/article/view/66751. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Dossiê - Experiências de enriquecimento mútuo: desde e com a comunidade surda