About virtual communities and Alzheimer's disease - Solidarity, care and information

• Published in: Revista Kairós : gerontologia Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 245 - 256
• Main Author: Liliane Maria da Silva Melo Bruno
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 01-10-2013
• Subjects: Cuidador; Doença de Alzheimer; Idosos; Internet; Redes sociais
• ISSN: 1516-2567; 2176-901X

From an approach to the environment virtual communities related to Alzheimer’s Disease, this study sought highlighted the scale of this issue in internet and watch how to approach the pathology in fourteen communities specific. The theoretical study focused on the complexities of family care to old guided the course of drafting the research. Through and analysis qualitative community, observed the importance of virtual environment training support networks for caregivers of relatives with Alzheimer’s. Among 5337 shares of virtual users from a same community it was felt content suggesting the formation of social ties-affective quite significant in reference to an exercise of solidarity social and ability to resist adversities of the progression of degenerative disease. Once standing as a tool for information dissemination and exchange of experience, the internet could represent an additional resource potentially able to establish greater approach among caregivers, which in ultimately could contribute to creation of an interactive network of care beyond the virtual environment.