2015, Number 3
Senior Adult care: a challenge for contemporary medicine
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: In Cuba, as part of the Care Program for the Elderly, community care develops actions to provide comprehensive care to the elderly, in order to keep them active within the community and integrate them in it. This requires designing this stage of life as a period of development and growth, rich in experience and knowledge, which would be reversed in preventive actions that help the elderly lead a fuller life, feeling useful and satisfied despite their advanced age, with a positive perception of old age. This responsibility must assume by the health personnel in their community by maintaining a close relationship with them.Objectives: Characterize the geriatric population and then work with it in a community project.
Methods: An observational, descriptive study was carried out at Doctor's Office 6 in Pedro Diaz Coello Polyclinic from January to February 2013. All patients older than 60 years joined the study. The sample was chosen at simple random, taking into account the exclusion criteria. Individual medical histories were reviewed to characterize the subjects in this study. Yesavage Depression Scale was applied as well as tests to determine cognitive impairment in the elderly.
Results: Old youth predominated, with greater functional percent in women without cognitive impairment; depression was present in most of them.
Conclusions: Old youth predominated, functional and without cognitive impairment, with a higher percent in women, depression was present in most of them.
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