Valoración integral del adulto mayor en dos consultorios del Centro de Salud Pascuales. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: The aging of the world population is an undeniable fact that is occurring either due to factors such as scientific advances, migration, the decrease in the fertility rate and the improvement in life expectancy, which results in a population vulnerable older adults with their specific health problems that need to be known to provide personalized health care based on standards and protocols of comprehensive geriatric care protocols. Materials and methods: An observational, prospective, descriptive and cross-sectional investigation was carried out, whose processing was to collect information through a survey prepared by the author, form 057 of the Ministry of Public Health of attention to the elderly with their respective geriatric scales and the family functioning test, whose data are taken to an extended database in the statistical program SPSS in its version 22 and the results obtained are presented in tables with numbers and percentages. Results: 54% were male, 31% were between 70 and 74 years old, 93% were mestizos, 53% marital status was married, 87% were primary school students, 76% did not work, 67% were hypertensive, 29% were fragile, 52% need some help, 86% with absence of cognitive deterioration, 96% without depressive state, 92% with absence of risk of malnutrition, 77% with low social risk and 69% belong to functional families.Conclusions: The male sex, the five year old group of 70-74 years old, the mestizo ethnic group, married marital status, primary education, those who do not work, hypertension is the most prevalent pathology, frailty, the geriatric syndrome mostly found, predominates. followed by an important number of cases of malnutrition due to excess, in the functional area there is an important degree of ependence, in the psychocognitive sphere, there is no depression or cognitive deterioration in its great majority, in the nutritional assessment, there is no risk of malnutrition, the valuation social is acceptable and finally the families of older adults are functional.