Abstract

GARCIA ROSIQUE, Regla Mercedes; GUISADO ZAMORA, Katia  and  TORRES TRIANA, Adelaida. Intra family mistreatment toward elder people in the Polyclinic Reynold  García. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2016, vol.38, n.6, pp. 826-836. ISSN 1684-1824.

Introduction: elder people mistreatment emerges as a social problem since a few years ago, not because it did not exist before, but because in many cases it exists inside the family, but it is not perceived from outside. Objective: identifying intra family mistreatment toward elder people. Materials and methods: a descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in 60 old adults elder than 60 years, belonging to Family Physician Consultation Nr. 87, of the Policlinic Reynold García, health area Versalles, in the city of Matanzas, in the period between  April 2014 and April 2015. The analyzed variables were: age, sex, maltreatment existence, kinds of maltreatment and risk factors related with it. The results were given in tables and expressed in absolute and relative numbers. Results: The intra family violence prevalence was 100 % in elder people. The ages between 70 and 79 years were the most affected ones. It behaved in the same form for both sexes (50 %). Elder people with  lower scholarship were the most vulnerable ones to maltreatment. Psychological maltreatment affected 100 % of the enquired people, followed by negligence or abandonment (93.3 %), elder people depression (56.7 %) and deficient socio-family support (40 %). 38.3 %  were older than 75 years old, risk factor that was the most related with the probability of elder people being target of any kind of maltreatment. Conclusions: the total of the inquired people were victims of  maltreatment, in spite of the sex.  The most vulnerable elder people were the ones with low scholarship level, predominating psychological violence, negligence and abandonment. Feelings of physical and emotional incapability to stand the effort to carry out, alcohol and psycho drugs abuse, economical or dwelling dependence were the factors  that led them to become dependants on the relative, and also the ones that were more related with elder people maltreatment.

Keywords : elder people; intra family abuse.

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