2021, Number 3
Characterization of family functioning with older adults at No 43 Family Doctor's Office from Turcios Lima University Polyclinic
Language: Spanish
References: 15
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: family functioning assessment is an important element in the comprehensive health care of the older adults.Objective: to characterize family functioning of the older adults belonging to No 43 Family Doctor’s Office from Turcios Lima University Polyclinic between September 2018 and May 2019.
Methods: and observational, descriptive and cross sectional study was conducted in a population of older adults belonging to No 43 Doctor’s Office from Turcios Lima University Polyclinic, Pinar del Rio municipality and province between September 2018 and May 2019. The target group comprised 155 older adults from No 43 Family Doctor’s Office, where giving the informed consent was the only criterion of inclusion to participate in the research, which was accepted by all of the older adults, working with the whole target group, not including a chosen sample.
Results: moderately functional families predominated (46,5 %) and functional ones (23,2 %). The majority of the individuals from 60 to 69 years old (42,9 %) and those from 70 to 79 (50 %), were from a moderately family functioning. Concerning the characteristics of risk of the dimension of socioeconomic and cultural context of family life was the critical family economy the most frequent (29,0 %), overcrowding (23,9 %), and not secure conditions of the houses (12,3%).
Conclusions: moderately functional families predominated, showing increases in alterations of family functioning as the age of older adults increased.
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