El grupo como una modalidad de abordaje clínico para atender el malestar subjetivo de los adultos mayores en instituciones gerontológicas residenciales y diurnas.

Abstract

The present document is about the systematization of pre-professional practices at the “Llenos de vida” Day Center that is part of a program My best years of MIES and the Geriatric Institute Hogar del Corazón de Jesús, where we work with elder people without cognitive impairment and in some cases mild cognitive impairment using the monosymptomatic group technique. This group approach was given in order to provide a clinic intervention modality where they are allowed to talk about their discomfort and what afflicts them. For the clinical approach, we used the monosymptomatic group technique created by Massimo Recalcati to address the subjective discomfort of older adults providing a different alternative using the homogenization of universal discomfort from older adults to then recognize particular traits so they can identify them, get involved and take charge of their desire and achieve process the demand for clinical work. The methodological approach applied is qualitative, and the primary method used was the discourse analysis to determine those subjective discomforts brought by words. During the approach, it was evidenced that the primary discomfort of the elderly are the losses. We will listed some of them: losses related to the body, losses in the family environment, loss related to social circle, retirement, stigmatization of the elderly and economic unproductivity.