Contexto sociofamiliar y los efectos en la calidad de vida de las personas adultas mayores, que residen en el Centro Gerontológico “Santa Ana”, periodo 2022

Abstract

The process of aging in the world, it’s an accelerated process and irreversible. Nowadays, this population lives more, however under the conditions that they live this process are not the same. In Latin America, social inequalities, for the limit access to education, health, social security, jobs and cares of the older adults, describe the reality of a lot of countries; in this order of ideas, poverty, abandonment, begging and conditions of streets, all of them are circumstances that affect to this specific population, because their family or social environments don’t assume the responsibility, making out of the institutionalization the way to survive. This study pretends to analyze the social and family environment as well as the quality of life of the elderly in a “Gerontological Center Santa Ana”, before and after getting institutionalized. A mixed methodology was used. The design of the study was descriptive and transversal. The quantitative method was a census to 30 older adults, through a questionnaire with 62 questions, meanwhile to the qualitative method, a semi structed interview was applied to 5 older adults, chosen by convenience. To the process of results, there were used the SPSS and ATLAS TI software’s. The striking results that were obtained are that 54% of the older population doesn’t has family support, and the 38% had lived in conditions related to poverty, abandonment, begging conditions of streets. The 43% affirm that sometimes get visits from family and friends. And that the main motive to get institutionalized was because there was the need to improve their health, and well-being.