Health situation in the perception of elderly widows assisted by primary health care.
Mariana Lustosa de CarvalhoCristhiano Neiva Santos BarbosaValéria Peixoto BezerraAna Maria Ribeiro Dos SantosCynthia Roberta Dias Torres SilvaCleidiane Maria Sales de BritoMaria do Livramento Fortes FigueiredoPublished in: Revista brasileira de enfermagem (2020)
The elderly widows perceive their health situation as relatively good and some factors are challenges to a better health situation. For the participants, widowhood means more than just the physical loss of the husband, interfering negatively in the perception of their health situation.