title: Nurses and care delivery to elderly women: a social phenomenological approach.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand how nurses see care delivery to elderly women.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this phenomenological study, ten nurses working at Primary Health Care Units were interviewed between September 2010 and January 2011.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In care delivery, nurses consider the elderly women's knowledge background and biographical situation, and also value the family's participation as a care mediator. These professionals have the acuity to capture these women's specific demands, but face difficulties to deliver care to these clients. Nurses expect to deliver qualified care to these women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The theoretical and methodological approach of social phenomenology permitted revealing that the nurse designs qualified care to elderly women, considering the possibilities in the context. This includes the participation of different social actors and health sectors, assuming collective efforts in action strategies and professional training, in line with the particularities and care needs of elderly women nurses identify.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sebastião
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Caldeira
authors.forename: Miriam Aparecida Barbosa
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Merighi
authors.forename: Luz Angelica
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: Maria Cristina Pinto
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: de Jesus
authors.forename: Selisvane Ribeiro da Fonseca
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Domingos
authors.forename: Deíse Moura
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D012961:Sociology; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult