Valuation of the Physical Condition of the Older Adults in the Establishment La Sierrita, Cumanayagua

Abstract

The process of evaluating the physical condition of older adults is of great importance, as it allows us to assess the functional abilities and health status of this large group of people in Cuba. The investigation was aimed to value the physical condition that have the older adults in the Medical Clinic of Family Nr. 7 in the establishment "La Sierrita" of the municipality Cumanayagua. The type of design used in the study is non-experimental transectional descriptive, for this we worked with a population of 120 older adults, from which a sample of 35 older adults was selected through intentional non-probabilistic sampling and with inclusion criteria. Of them, 20 are female and 15 are male, with ages between 60 and 81 years old. To give execution to the proposed objectives different methods and instruments they were applied among those that are theoretical methods as the historical-logical, analytic-synthetic and inductive-deductive and of the empiric level; the analysis of documents, the interview and the mensuration by means of a battery of tests to evaluate the physical condition. The physical condition of the older adult’s investigation object threw that 8.6% was evaluated of very well, 48.6% of well, 25.7% of regulating and 17.1% of bad according to the established levels. The study confirms that the physical condition of the investigated older adults behaves with a level under of yield physical first floor in the evaluated physical capacities.