Abstract
Objective:
Knowing the comprehension of teachers and students of health and human sciences about the group on Integrated Multidisciplinary Care to Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's disease as an educational and care-related (geronto)technology in the context of Alzheimer's disease and of support to the elderly person/family.
Methods:
Exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research involving seven professors and nine university students of a support group in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data were collected between November and December/2015, through Focus Groups, and then submitted to Discursive Textual Analysis.
Results:
Teachers and students understand the group as a (geronto)technology, due to the developed educational and care-related activities. For them, the group is able to produce new gerontotechnologies, which demonstrates its ability as a complex educational and care-related (geronto)technology.
Conclusion:
It is necessary to rethink the Group as a complex educational and care-related (geronto)technology, thus strengthening it to develop new technologies.
Keywords:
Aged; Alzheimer's disease; Technology; Nonlinear dynamics; Nursing