Work analysis of health caregivers in therapeutics homes

Abstract

The Therapeutics Residences (TRs) are part of the dispositions created by the Psychiatric Reform, aiming at the deinstitutionalization. This article aims to present a reflection on the work of health caregivers of the Health System in the TRs. Interviews conducted with the TRs' caregivers led to the creation of a thematic class which we called Living in Homes, through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). It is concluded that the work in the TRs involves complex relationships with the residents, the neighborhood and all the care network of the Universal Health System (SUS). These relationships must be developed by teams that integrate the entire care network to clarify, together with the caregivers, the core of their function in the context of the TRs. Thus, it emphasizes the need for instrumentation, training, listening and creating spaces that allow supervisory support to the caregivers' work.