title: From real to ideal--the health (un)care of long-lived elders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze similarities and dissimilarities in the meanings assigned to health care by long-lived elders and nursing professionals in a healthcare setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  ethnographic qualitative research, based on the Spradley-McCurdy method and the interpretive anthropology of Geertz and Kleinman. The sample consisted of 20 key informants. Data were collected through participatory observation and ethnographic interviews from March to October 2013 and analyzed in domains, taxonomies and cultural themes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Six domains and cultural taxonomies emerged and revealed reasons, attributes, and resources in providing care in relationship to long-lived elders and nursing professionals; finally, the following cultural theme emerged: the real to the ideal - the health (un)care of long-lived elders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The study showed the distance between the desired and actual health care provided to aged people in the scenario studied.
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Setor de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR.
authors: Tatiane
authors: T
authors: Michel
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Setor de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR.
authors: Maria Helena
authors: MH
authors: Lenardt
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Setor de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR.
authors: Mariluci Hautsch
authors: MH
authors: Willig
authors: Departamento de Enfermagem, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, BR.
authors: Angela Maria
authors: AM
authors: Alvarez
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001938:Brazil; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male