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Published on: September 30, 2020
[Elderly human being with ostomy and environments of care: reflection on the perspective of complexity]
Edaiane Joana Lima Barros1, Silvana Sidney Costa Santos, Valéria Lerch Lunardi
1Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, RS, Brasil. edaiane_barros@yahoo.com.br
Abstract:
This is discussion about the relationship between elderly human beings with ostomy and their environments care, under the perspective of Complexity Edgar Morin. An axis holds the reflection: environments of care for elderly humans with ostomy. In this sense, we present three types of environment that surround the context of elderly humans with ostomy: home environment, group environment and hospital environment. This brings, as a social contribution, a new look about resizing caring of elderly humans with ostomy in their environment. It is considered that the environment hosting this human being contains a diversity of feelings, emotions, experiences; it binds multiple meanings, from the Complexity perspective, about the relationship between the environment and the caring process.
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