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Objective: to understand the perspective of nurses on the transitional care of the person with chronic noncommunicable disease from hospital to home. Method: qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study. The study scenario was a University Hospital in southern Brazil. Data collection occurred through semi-structured interviews with 28 nurses and managers, between July 2018 to May 2019, in which the analyses were made by the themes. Results: The nurses point out some strategies of transition of the care, as the inclusion of the caregiver in the orientations and the telephone contact. They also indicate the need for recognition of the health network by professionals and the challenge of articulation between different services. Final considerations: the transitional care goes beyond the reductionist logic of simple individualized orientation to hospital discharge. The nurse can lead the change and promote the consolidation of safe and qualified practices, due to its insertion in the various scenarios of health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to understand the care for the frail elderly provided by family-related inpatient caregivers, as well as their interaction with the Family Health Strategy, from the perspective of caregivers. Method: exploratory-descriptive, qualitative study conducted with 17 informal family-related caregivers of frail elderly from a Family Health Strategy in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data collected between September/2019 and February/2020, through an interview with semi-structured script and questionnaire. Content analysis was performed, thematic type. Results: most caregivers were women, 26-79 years old, white and brown, married and low schooling. Effective communication between the health team and the family/elderly caregiver, to the detriment of high turnover of professionals of the Family Health Strategy, excessive demand for functions and lack of training and technical ability of the caregiver. Final thoughts: care for the frail elderly belonged to the female universe and aroused a mixture of feelings. Interaction between caregivers and family health strategy was generally mediated by the Community Health Agent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]