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Objective: To understand the differences of physicians, nurses, and social workers in the evaluation of the health status of the elderly. Methods: A cross-sectional quantitative study, using descriptive statistics. Non-probabilistic sample, consisting of 291 participants from three professional categories: 71 (24.4%) physicians, 192 (66%) nurses, and 28 (9.6%) social workers. We used a questionnaire including the variables: sociodemographic characteristics and instruments used for evaluation. Results: Instruments with greater utility for the evaluation of the elderly: for physicians, Mini Mental State Examination; for nurses, Braden scale; and for social workers, genogram. In the physical examination, the data most collected by physicians and nurses are the vital signs; and by social workers, the condition for performing the Activities of Daily Living. Conclusions: The evaluation of the elderly is based on a diversity of instruments and is an area in which health and social professionals need to share information.

<p>Objetivo: compreender, com base nos discursos da equipa de saúde, o desenvolvimento da assistência aos mais de 65 anos, para se manterem saudáveis, ativos, independentes e autónomos. Método: pesquisa qualitativa com abordagem interpretativa, realizada num Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde do Norte de Portugal. Dados colhidos por entrevista semiestruturada e analisados por meio de análise de conteúdo, por categorias, numa amostra de médicos, enfermeiros e assistentes sociais. Resultados: entre os participantes, 83% não possuíam formação em gerontologia. Havia focos de avaliação da assistência, em que todos os profissionais estimavam os mesmos dados, mas havia dados necessários ao acompanhamento dos idosos que não eram avaliados por nenhum profissional. A partilha da informação para a assistência, quando ocorria, recaía nas situações de doença ou de alterações do contexto social. Conclusão: achados evidenciaram lacunas no trabalho em equipa desenvolvido pelos profissionais de saúde e sociais, e na assistência no âmbito da Promoção da Saúde.</p><p>Descritores: Idoso. Promoção da Saúde. Pessoal de Saúde. Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente. Enfermagem</p>

Objective: to describe the consensus of the content of an instrument for assessing interdisciplinary health care of the elderly population. Methods: consensus study conducted among physicians, nurses, and social workers, contemplating the construction of instrument and the pre-test for selection of scales for use in practice. Questionnaire consisting of questions that identified representative scales in the assessment of the elderly. The scales that obtained consensus criterion of equal to or greater than 75% were considered selected by the experts. Sample was composed through snowball sampling, resulting in 101 participants. Results: of the 13 scales submitted,the professionals indicated that eight were suitable for use and two were already applied within their practice. The excluded became part of the recommendations for good practices in elderly care. A discrepancy was identified between what they consider to be useful and of interest versus what is applied in practice. Conclusion: consensus among experts allowed us to identify and select interdisciplinary assessment data for a proposed instrument to support the care process. Contributions to practice: this contributes to awareness about the use of recommended scales for the elderly and to avoid the overlapping of the same interventions by several professionals, with significant gains for this population.