title: Health education: a strategy of care for the lay caregiver.
abstract: This article aimed to reflect about the importance of the role nurses perform in strategies of health education to lay caregivers, who are important actors in the health/disease process. It is a thematic reflection, built through bibliographic review, which discusses the role of lay caregivers in different stages of the life cycle. Considering the participation of lay caregivers in the Brazilian reality, strategies have been sought to include them in the health care, given the little attention Public Policies have given to them. Therefore, the nurses as health educators, must offer support to the lay caregivers helping them to choose among available alternatives, while delivering care, to not harm their own health. Concluding, health education can be an alternative to offer attention to the lay caregivers, while the nurse has important role in the development of alternatives.
authors.affiliation: luccasm@ibestvip.com.br
authors.forename: Luccas Melo
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.forename: Wiliam
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wegner
authors.forename: Maria Isabel Pinto
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Coelho Gorini
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education*; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D010354:Patient Escort Service; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires