Background:

residual schizophrenia is a frequent disorder in older adults diagnoseds with schizophrenia, a chronic disease, characterized by apathy, affective flattening and social isolation.

Objective:

to design an intervention to achieve physical independence in older adults with residual schizophrenia.

Methods:

intervention and development study that shows the health intervention to achieve physical independence in older adults with residual schizophrenia at the Sancti Spíritus Provincial Teaching Psychiatric Hospital, in the period from September 2016 to January 2018. The physical independence Study variable was measured as independent, minimally dependent and dependent. Different rehabilitation modalities were applied. A structured interview and direct observation of the elderly were used. With percentage analysis of the variable used. The population consisted of 27 older adults with a diagnosis of residual schizophrenia. Eighteen experts to whom the Delphi method was applied were consulted.

Results:

the proportion of older adults who achieved physical independence was 52.17%, which was due to changes in health-generating behaviors.

Conclusions:

the health intervention to achieve physical independence in older adults with residual schizophrenia articulates actions and educational activities that favor the personal health-patient-sociocultural context relationship, to bring physical independence to a systemic conception that favors monitoring and disease control.

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