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The role of women in Spanish society caregiver

A study by the Study Group Patient and Older multimorbidity of the English Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) under of Profund Project ( and predictive prognostic model for patients with multiple comorbidities functional development in Spain ) has revealed that the profile of the carer relates mainly to women, a key social role and little known among the English.

Major obejtivos of the English Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) is to improve patient care and the elderly multimorbidity and the quality of care provided to this population. That is why it has carried out the Project Profund to "advance scientific knowledge of survival and functional impairment in patients with multiple comorbidities" , in the words of Dr. Máximo Bernabeu-Wittel, project coordinator .

Thus, Dr. Javier Garcia Alegria, president of the English Foundation Internal Medicine (PEF), says that through this study has made an approach to the figure of the caregiver, reaching data collection developers "confirming an undisputed fact that social and family had pointed timidly studies smaller individual health centers ".

PROFILE PATIENT AND CAREGIVER

This project involved a total of 1,632 patients and more than fifty researchers of thirty-six English hospitals.

The conclusions have been reached are the following:

• Just over half of these patients require a caretaker figure that most of the time is usually someone close. Usually this is a woman of the family and the patient receives care at the family home.
• The most frequent relationship between the caregiver and the patient is the father / mother - daughter, giving this relationship by 43.2 % of the cases analyzed. Followed that of wife (40% of the time), hired professional (9.1%) and finally a second-degree relative (7.7% of cases). In
• the 1,632 participants, 890 (over half) had a high level of dependence, as required of the post of caretaker.
• Of these 1,632 patients, 1,186 had the help of the carer, in a 81% of the cases was a woman, with an average age between 41 and 50 years.
• The bottom line is that often the wives and / or daughters who assume the caregiver role, and do so in the family home.

But also today, the best living conditions and advances in medicine have resulted in countries developed life expectancy is greater, so the number of people living with one or more chronic diseases for many years has also increased, becoming in patients with multiple comorbidities. In a 2006 study, found that people between 65 and 74 have an average of 2.8 problems or chronic diseases, reaching 3.2, among those over 75 years.

According to Dr. Berndt-Wittel, "These data should make us reflect on important issues such as gender equality, the key role played by carers of patients fragile in our society, poor social and institutional recognition of this role, and the implications and connotations that implies. "

SOURCE: VADEMECUM.ES