Perfil epidemiológico das vítimas idosas assistidas pelo Serviço de Atendimento Móvel de Urgência- SAMU.

Abstract

Population aging is a process of change that has been growing in recent years. In the last census conducted in 2010, seniors now represent 10.8% of the Brazilian people, or more than 20.5 million people have more than 60 years, it is estimated that these 20 years that number more than triple, with this, the National Policy for the Elderly (PNI), ensures rights to preserve their physical and mental health conditions of freedom and dignity, as well as their moral and social improvement. The Unified Health System (SUS) is not ready to meet all the needs of the elderly population so prevalent complications of chronic and degenerative diseases, requiring urgent and emergency care where the SAMU is the main component. We aimed to identify the epidemiological profile of elderly victims assisted by the emergency Mobile Service - SAMU, in Bonito town of Santa Fe - PB. This study is the documentary type of exploratory and descriptive nature with quantitative approach. The study population resulted from calls to elderly assisted by SAMU Bonito de Santa Fe-PB, during the period January 2011 to May 2015 through attendance records provided by the service. The sample consisted of 567 elderly. The results for the sociodemographic data, with women prevailed (60%) of cases, as occurrences of clinical nature were the highest percentage (87.5%) of cases, the age group that most needed answering was between 71-80 years of age (35.8%), the main sites of care was in their homes (78.3%), stood out as the outcome removal to the hospital (52.7%), deaths were identified (3, 5%) of all cases, with age above 60 years. The development of guiding research was to demonstrate the importance of SAMU in the clinical causes were the main complications met by this female service had higher prevalence in attendance. That although the city has small, received the majority of patients by providing appropriate assistance and preventing the displacement to other reference centers. Thus, public policy should work to promote health and well-being of the elderly population in order to ensure longer life expectancy.