Introduction:

The demographic changes of the last decades favor the increase of the elderly; this panorama shows an increase in non-communicable diseases, among the most frequent is Alzheimer's disease. Patients who suffer from it require nursing care in primary health care.

Objective:

To establish the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and stages of Alzheimer's disease from a nursing perspective.

Methods:

Descriptive correlational study in 81 patients with Alzheimer's disease were carried out at Julio Antonio Mella Teaching Polyclinic in Guanabacoa municipality, Havana, Cuba, from April to May 2018. The variables studied were age, sex, stage of the disease, marital status and schooling level. We took information from the sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire. Absolute frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation for age were used; the relationship of the stage of the disease with sociodemographic variables was verified with the Pearson correlation coefficient test.

Results:

We found a predominance of patients with mean age of 79.22 years; 63.00%, women; 45.70%, widowers; 64.20% with secondary schooling completed; 63.00% in moderate stage of the disease. A negative and positive correlation was evidenced between the stage of the disease and the sociodemographic characteristics; and significance levels of 0.01 and 0.05.

Conclusions:

Patients with Alzheimer's disease prevailed in the moderate stage of the disease, female, widowed, with high school education level and mean age of 79.22 years. A correlation was identified between the stage of the disease and the sociodemographic characteristics of the patients.

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