Diseño de una estrategia de intervención educativa para la prevención y manejo de factores de riesgo en adultos mayores de dos consultorios del Centro de Salud Pascuales. Año 2021.

Abstract

Background: Study that designs an educational intervention strategy to show how to prevent and reduce risk factors in older adults, due to the increase in vulnerability that limits their sociocultural development. Methods: Descriptive study. Through a survey and scales, information is collected from older adults of both sexes from offices 26A and 26B of the Pascuales Health Center. Results: 35% of older adults are between 65 and 69 years old, 58.33% are female, 46.67% are single, 98.3% are of mestizo ethnicity, 85% receive an adequate income, 50% have finished primary school, 50% predominate the housewife occupation, 83.3% are Catholic, 63.3% predominate visual difficulty, 63.3% do not present hearing difficulty, 65% did not present difficulty in mobility of the legs, no person presented involuntary loss of urine, 90% have not lost weight, 91.7% did not present memory loss, 55% did not present sadness, 88.3% bathe alone, the 76.7% predominate going shopping alone, 88.3% live accompanied, 66.7% did not present depression, 78.3% prevailed acceptable social situation, 66.7% predominated the type of activity by talks, 70% the schedule in the morning prevailed, 56.7% prefer 15 minutes of activities, 48.3% prevailed the talk once a month, 75% prevailed that the talks were ean at home, 66.7% predominated that the groups are from 2 to 5 people. Conclusions: : It’s necessary to consider that the essential thing is to keep the older adult in active participation, physically and psychologically, to avoid complications of pathological aging that is expressed in a state of fragility and dependence.