INTERVENÇÕES NA SOBRECARGA DE CUIDADORES INFORMAIS DE IDOSOS DEPENDENTES NA COMUNIDADE- REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA DA LITERATURA

This study aims to perform an integrative review of the literature on interventions in the work overload of informal caregivers of dependent elderly in the community, investigating how the role of nurses can be improved by mobilizing Dorothea Orem's Nursing Self-Care Deficit Theory. We performed the electronic research of articles in EBSCOhost, of which we selected nine and the results were grouped into three dimensions: I. Overload of caregivers of the elderly; II. Interventions for caregivers based on the self-care deficit; and III. Evidence of interventions to support informal caregivers. The implementation of multidisciplinary interventions in the community, together with informal caregivers, has a positive effect on overload. Nursing interventions, supported by the Nursing SelfE G I T A N I A S C I E N C I A N o 2 5 – 2 0 1 9 I S S N : 1 6 4 6 8 8 4 8 | 122 | Care Deficit Theory, particularly in the educational nursing system, evidence improvements in the health and well-being of informal caregivers by reducing subjective overload.