Atención integral al Adulto Mayor en el Puesto de Salud de Chumblín, Azuay, 2015

Abstract

Abstract:This graduation project describes the various criteria of comprehensive care of the elderly, then analyzed and implements a program of comprehensive care for the Elderly in Operational Health Unit Chumblín. Health Center in the town of older adults are certain situations that threaten their physical and emotional condition, due to the lack of health promotion and education in healthy lifestyles. The presence of chronic degenerative diseases in advanced stages and lack of regular attendance at controls, demonstrates the lack of comprehensive care and internal organization to promote health and prevention policies focused on the elderly. The result of the intervention sensitized and unveiled the rights that older adults and how to care for them, considering their physical, psychological and emotional needs, projecting health workers in comprehensive quality care and warmth to this population, remembering and applying the rights of the elderly, thus raising the level of care and principal quality and life expectancy of that priority population.