Funcionamiento familiar en hogares con adultos mayores del Consultorio Médico de Familia Nº 4, Centro de Salud Urbano Playas. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Currently, technological advances have allowed decreasing birth and death rates and improve social conditions; the older population is increasingly numerous and their health care is fast becoming a public health and social security. Materials and Methods: Descriptive, observational, transversal and prospective research. The universe consisted of 83 older adults and their families, belonging to the medical clinic 4 of the Playas urban health center, in the Playas district, 2018. As an inclusion criterion, the older adult than the selection meets the criteria of the researcher (head of family) who agreed to participate in the investigation and signed informed consent. A survey carried out by the author was applied to estimate the family crisis that the Cuban ff-sill survey carried out in order to assess family functioning and internal relationships where the author made a Likert scale for better interpretation. Results: The predominant sociodemographic characteristics are women aged 65 to 70 years (36.3%) mestizos (57.8%) and married (28.9%) housewives with primary academic (60.2%) prevail medians (51.8%), nuclear (54.2%), multigenerational families (41%) and shrinking (73.5%), dominates the nonexistence of crisis (63.9%) and cohesion (51.8%) dimensions, affection and communication (72.3%) are the most favorable, functional families (51.8%) occupy the highest percentage. Conclusions: Older adults living in households where family functioning is adequate.