[Ethical and Legal Aspects That Consider in the Medical History of the Elderly]

Nurses regularly use the patient's clinical history and we interact through it with multi and interdisciplinary team with the purpose of providing comprehensive care to the elderly. We make professional use of personal patient information with this interaction, as well we generate the nursing care plan and nursing records. We also perform comprehensive geriatric assessment and other specific registers aimed at elderly care, which have a clear impact on patient health care. The progress and regulatory complexity on the use of medical history, new strategies of the relationship in the context of care, based on bioethics, as well as the active role of nurses in the creation of information, makes necessary to review the ethical and legal issues surrounding this document, in this case, in elderly patients.