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[Empowering a group of seniors in a rural community]
Ana Rita Marinho Machado1, Walterlânia Silva Santos2, Flavia Aparecida Dias3
1Department of Nursing in Education and Community Health, Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil.
Objective:
To describe the stages of the empowerment process of a group of seniors in a rural community.
Method:
Convergent care research whose foundation is to use the scope of practice. Conducted with the proposal to change the practice of 21 seniors and nine health professionals, with the aim of health promotion empowerment. Data were collected during 22 meetings, and group interviews at the end of the intervention.
Results:
Showed that despite the initial impact of the change, the group was able to welcome the new change, taking advantage of the space to express anxieties, share joys, and build new knowledge, which led to the incorporation of changes that reflected in the development of healthy habits and improvements in interpersonal relationships.
Conclusion:
The convergent care research consisted of strategy that changed the group's lives, empowering them with health promoting actions.
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