Educational preparation of the informal caregiver of the dependent elderly in Granma. Systematic review

Abstract

The transition towards the aging era is already a reality, currently posing a challenge for countries as it entails establishing political, social and health strategies to address it. In order to identify scientific publications focused on the educational preparation of informal caregivers of dependent older adults in Granma, a systematic review was conducted on 77 articles published in Spanish, obtained from reliable sources indexed in databases addressing the topic. Inclusion criteria were: qualitative and quantitative studies, experimental, descriptive quasi-experimental studies, and systematic reviews published in article format, written in Spanish; published in the period from January 2021 to October 2025. Exclusion criteria were: studies on informal caregivers of patients under 60 years of age who were not dependent, gray literature, undergraduate theses, articles without access to full text, those with few references, not published in the established period, opinion/information articles, conference presentations, communications to congresses, and bibliographic reviews. Results were obtained from 74 articles in Google Scholar database and 3 in regional SciELO, concluding that there is evidence of only one publication in Granma during the study period, demonstrating the need to address this topic within the scientific community to understand the situation of informal caregivers in the province and establish governmental actions and health policies due to demographic aging.