2003, Number 1
Social causes that originate sensation of abandonment in patients of the third age
Fuentes GMI, García GA
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Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT
Objective: To identify the causes that originate sensation of abandonment in the patients of the third age. Place: Unit of Family Medicine 52 Cuautitlán Izcalli of Mexico Subdelegación Tlalnepantla. Design: Observational Ambispectivo, Traverse. Material and methods: 85 patients were studied bigger than 60 years that you/they went to Social Work of the UMF. The study understood two phases: the first one consisted of a questionnaire, where the following variables were tabulated: sex, age, schooling, civil state. As well as 12 closed questions and 7 open, to know their economic, family and social situation. Besides their feelings in this respect. The second were focused to a family investigation by means of a domiciliary visit, to corroborate the information obtained in the questionnaire and to know the family dynamics, considering aspects like attention, treatment, company and personal hygiene and of the housing. Results: In the investigation they were obtained been statistically significant with a P ‹ 0.001 and we find that the group of ages fluctuated between 60 and 90 years, prevailing the group from 60 to 70 years, the relationship feminine-masculine sex went from 1 to 1. The majority schooling was of primary incomplete with 39%. 57% still has couple. 25% lacks family support, 4% lives exclusively off its pension, 6% doesn’t receive its relatives’ visit. 30% refers to feel alone. 17% is in risk of suffering complications and 1% it suffers abandonment to lack of family near. Conclusions: 51% of the sample has a minimum or null school instruction, for what its labor activity yielded him a low entrance that impeded him a preparation or opportunity to plan its age. This gives as a result that the age is not satisfactory and that its emotional state influences negatively in its adaptation to the aging process and he/she manifests it with apathy, isolation, depression, feelings of solitude and it discourages feeling a load or nuisance for its relatives.REFERENCES