EDUCAÇÃO EM SAÚDE PARA CONTROLE DE DIABETES MELLITUS EM IDOSOS DA UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA À TERCEIRA IDADE: UM RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA

Doi: 10.47094/ICOBRAMUES.2024/RE/2

PALAVRAS CHAVE: Educação em saúde. Pessoa Idosa. Diabetes Mellitus.

KEYWORDS: Health education. Elderly people. Diabetes Mellitus.

ABSTRACT:
INTRODUCTION
The Open University for the Elderly (UATI) is a program that aims to restore the social, cultural and economic value of the elderly, promote self-esteem, and allow them to live a useful and full life, in addition to healthy aging. It is currently a university extension project present in several state and federal institutions in the country. With the aim of making the elderly an active subject of teaching and learning, the UATI carries out activities such as workshops, seminars, discussion groups and health and culture fairs. This study portrays the experience of five nursing students from a university in the interior of Bahia, who during the practices of the curricular component “Nursing in Adult and Elderly Health I”, contributed to the UATI Health Fair, which aims at well-being in old age by offering blood pressure measurement, capillary blood glucose, physical activities and promoting health education about chronic conditions that prevail in old age, such as Diabetes Mellitus.

Autores

• Adriele Oliveira Santiago

• Fatima Vitória Diogo Batista

• Irla Winnie da Silva Santos

• Maria Luiza dos Santos Almeida

• Mayana Carneiro da Silva