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    Adulto mayor: desde una vejez “biológica-social” hacia un “nuevo” envejecimiento productivo
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-12) Valarezo Garcia, Carlos Luis
    The aging of the population is characteristic for the contemporary world, and seemingly countries do not have the key to tackle this evolution in the best way. Most countries maintain an old aging paradigm that associates biological aging with functional impairment. In fact, many governments introduced an artificial age line, the so-called retirement age, at which it is assumed that a decline in the functional-intellectual and productive capacities of a human being emerge, generally coupled with a social burden for the state. However, the social life cycle not necessarily corresponds with biological dysfunctionality, delineating a before and after a lifetime in the emotional aspects, self-esteem and interrelation of a person, and which traditionally is based on a denigrating socio-cultural conception of old age associated with dependence. Right in front of this conceptual stigma, this paper attempts to analyze the multiple voices expressing new paradigms of productive age and the various forms of work activities, with direct or indirect economic impact, elderly people can accomplish and help them to stay physically and mentally active and useful to the society.
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    Plataforma basada en ecgML para el estudio de las complicaciones cardiovasculares en el adulto mayor con síndrome metabólico
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2015) Parra, Freddy; Andrade, Diana; Cruz, Julio; Solano-Quinde, Lizandro; Palacio-Baus, Kenneth; Encalada, Lorena; Wong, Sara; Universidad de Cuenca; Dirección de Investigación de la Universidad de Cuenca; DIUC
    This research is part of DIUC- PROMETEO project Heart rate variability and insulin sensitivity in the elderly population of Cuenca. In this paper preliminary results of the development of a database for the study of metabolic syndrome and cardiac complications are shown. The main objective of this project is to integrate data collected on the project within an open framework. The proposed system is a flexible solution based on ecgML that can integrate different types of variables: ECG in SCP-ECG format, demographic, clinical, anthropometric and biochemical variables. Presently, the platform developed is used for the management of the multiparametric information of DIUC-PROMETEO project. Data from 180 elderly people have been registered. MS prevalence is close to 40%. From this population, 117 ECG records are available for cardiological studies.