Abstract

LARA CARDENTEY, Luciana; LEMUS FAJARDO, Nora María  and  IGLESIAS RODRIGUEZ, Nieves Pablo. Education to caregivers: strategy to achieve healthy aging. Rev Podium [online]. 2019, vol.14, n.2, pp. 314-325. ISSN 1996-2452.

In recent times, demographic changes are evident, the age of the world population tends to grow every day, as more people surpass the chronological barrier that man has placed as a stage of old age which begins at 60 years, making evident the need to train caregivers for these elderly. But there is a problem of urgent solution in Pinar del Río: The preparation of the caregivers is insufficient, to assume this task is so difficult to perform when it is assumed without training, the present study had as objective to demonstrate the need of the caregivers' schools to train them in the management of the elderly and thus achieve a healthy aging. A stratified random sampling was conducted, 48 people were surveyed on the behavior they would assume when caring for an elderly person. It was demonstrated that the psychological changes of the personality at that time of life, the difficulties in validism and the frequent appearance of illnesses, were correctly assumed by the caregivers, who in some way were trained, obtaining opposite results in the untrained. It is evident the need to train the caregivers of the elderly through the creation of a school of caregivers as a strategy to achieve a healthy aging in Pinar del Rio.

Keywords : caregivers; elderly; healthy aging; strategy..

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