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Revista Información Científica
versión On-line ISSN 1028-9933
Resumen
TURTOS-CARBONELL, Larissa Beatriz et al. COVID-19 and vulnerability vs. successful aging and mental health. Rev. inf. cient. [online]. 2022, vol.101, n.3 Epub 09-Mayo-2022. ISSN 1028-9933.
Introduction:
COVID-19 and the measures generated to protect older adults have marked much more the vulnerability of this group, increasing psychosocial risk factors such as disengagement, mistreatment, anxiety; which required examining patterns of successful old age that generate and guarantee mental health in the elderly.
Objective:
To characterize those indicators of a successful old age that promote mental health, through its concrete expression in a patient.
Method:
Qualitative approach, favoring the single critical case study. To assess the mental health and vulnerability criteria, a semi-structured interview was used. For the characterization of old age, we worked with the biographical method and the life history technique, from August to November 2021.
Results:
Vulnerability criteria such as widowhood and loneliness were identified, but prevailed micro and macrosocial strengths at an individual level, which is consolidated with a healthy mental state that was expressed in evident functioning and psychological well-being. All the indicators of successful aging that were defined were presented in the patient, guaranteeing satisfactory transit through the stage.
Conclusions:
The patient with a successful old age has networks of integration, activation and transcendence that allow him to restructure his field of action in a context such as COVID-19; guaranteeing self-assessment and a sense of life, expressed in a developing way to favor their mental health and psychological development.
Palabras clave : successful aging; old age; mental health; COVID-19; vulnerability.