INTERVENTION TO CARGIVERS OF A RURAL COMMUNITY

The role of caregiver has shown high risk of stress and depression and a higher prevalence of chronic diseases. Family support is key to provide care assistance to the patients. The caregivers’ role provide a profound alleviation for the costs on the public health systems through the health care and long term services that the caregivers provide to their relatives. Yet the caregivers are a vulnerable to several diseases related to the role they are playing. Thus, the purpose of this study is to describe the burden for caregivers and the impact of several educative strategies to mitigate such issue in the rural area of Tenjo, Cundinamarca. For this purpose ten caregiver will be assessed by home visits on which the Zarit Scale will be carried out before and after the implementation of the mitigation (educational) strategies. As part of the strategy, it will be seek to connect the current policies and Governmental public health of payments to the activities the caregivers do. The visits have already started and are close to be finished. The preliminary results show that more that 50% of the surveyed caregivers have a moderate to elevate burden.