نبذة مختصرة : Introduction: The ascension of techology linked to health has been engendering a crescent advance on search for heal and treatment of many chronic diseases today unhealing. Life expectancy is directly impacted because elderly population tend to live more. Progressive populational aging connected to exponential increase of cancer cases and chronic degenerative diseases with slow evolution generates larger committal and functional dependence for elderly population. Palliative Cares insert in this scenery as an extremely important speciality to professional practice aiming life quality, prevention and relief for suffering of patients and their relatives during this phase of life finitude. Aims: from empirical indicators approached by literature, to create a video for methodological support on professional capacity courses about palliative care for elderly and to validate this tool towards health professionals who act on palliative cares. Method: the first step of methodological study brings an integrative literature review, extracting empirical material from 5 data bases between August and October 2020: BVS, BDENF, Lilacs, Web of Science e Scopus. This first stage still includes researches, experience reports, case studies and scientific articles with primary data over the last 5 years, with all the text available; repetitive articles, scientific works presented in congresses or do not concerrned to te search question were excluded. According to such criteria, 27 articles composed the final sample. The second stage, for its turn, creates a screenplay with 6 scenes for the video, whose character’s speech were elaborated from results of the integrative review. Subsequently, this script was validated by specialist professionals according to the Content Validation Index (CVI). Results: Professionals’ knowledge is still very limitated. Despite recognizing the need, they do not know when nor how to approach elderly and their relatives about the terminality of life. Ineffective communication and defcit on professional ...
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