Fourteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Ensuring access and continuity of care for elderly users with dementia in Health Care Networks have become major challenges, given the changing epidemiological and demographic profile of Brazil. The methodological approach was qualitative using a cartographic method. We analyze the networks and the existential connections established by a user with dementia, from the perspective of the healthcare team responsible for the territory where the family lives. The techniques of focus group, analyzer flowchart and field journal were used. The results are presented as narratives, materialized in an Analyzer Flowchart, with the following categories of analysis emerging: access and barriers in the production of care; living a cartographic experience and; the functioning of the established care networks. The discussion highlights the need to expand possibilities to act in the world of health care according to the Brazilian public health system guidelines, but also reviewing ways of caring, seeking possibilities for an effective production of care. It was concluded that professionals direct their actions guided by the biomedical model that ensures them in an established, protocol world. However, sometimes, the micropolitics of its work process is invaded by users who express their voices, undoing this instituted way.