Hospital-home transitional care and support for home caregivers of elderly people with functional dependence: a scoping review

Review question / Objective: The review questions of this scoping are: 1. How does hospital-home transitional care support home caregivers of functionally dependent elderly people? 2. How is hospital-home transitional care applied to support home caregivers of elderly people with functional dependence? 3. What experiences of transitional hospital-home care were successful in supporting home caregivers of elderly people with functional dependence? The objective of this scoping review is to identify the hospital-home transitional care offered as support to the home caregiver of elderly people with functional dependence. Information sources: Medline/Pubmed, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, LILACS and Embase will be used. As gray literature, the CAPES Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and the OpenGrey platform will be evaluated.