PRÁTICAS DE ATENÇÃO A PESSOA IDOSA COM SOBREPESO E OBESIDADE NA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE

Objective: To analyze the practices developed in the care of overweight and obese elderly people in primary health care. Methods: an integrative literature review was conducted using the secondary databases Virtual Health Library, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Scientific Electronic Library Online and Online System for Search and Analysis of Medical Literature based on the specific descriptors retrieved from the Health Sciences Descriptors. Results: the practices developed in the scope of primary care are related to diet therapy, drug approach and referral for surgical intervention, the reception of overweight and obese individuals in all primary care facilities, including the Health Academy centers, nutritional and food surveillance actions and actions of health education groups, In this sense, a possible and strategic rearrangement in the care of overweight and obese elderly people in primary health care is nutritional health matrixing, which trains professionals of a multidisciplinary team to cope with overweight and obesity in the territories. Conclusion: the practices developed in primary care can be developed in the routine of the services and also with the support of nutritional matrix support practices.