Evaluación del estado de salud de la población geriátrica de la Unidad de Adultos Mayores del IESS Loja, durante mayo a agosto de 2013

Abstract

The present research aims to evaluate the general health condition of Social Security Elderly Unit in Loja, thorough the application of the rapid screening for common problems in ambulatory elderly scale, and determining the Metabolic Syndrome. Through non-probabilistic sampling (by saturation), 56 elderly that fulfilled the inclusion criteria were admitted to the research. After getting the informed consent, the scale for rapid screening for the elderly common problems was applied, the anthropometric measures and biochemical parameters for Metabolic Syndrome were documented. The intervention was performed to 56 adults over 60 years (21 men and 35 women), it was found that the main problems of geriatric conditions were depression (55.35%) followed by loss of vision (33.92%) and memory loss (14.28%). 37 participants had Metabolic Syndrome criteria (66%), 67,60% were female and 32,40% male. The main health problem in the study population was Metabolic Syndrome (mainly in women) followed by depression, visual and memory problems.