Introduction:

ageing is defined as a dynamic, progressive and irreversible process, involving multiple biological, psychical and social processes that are interrelated. The ageing of the world population advances at an accelerated pace.

Objective:

to characterize clinical-epidemiological and psycho-social aspects present in the elderly.

Materials and methods:

an epidemiological, descriptive, exploratory and cross-sectional study was carried out on the population of older people from two family doctor’s offices belonging to the Teaching Polyclinic Raul Sanchez, from Pinar del Rio, between January 2020 and January 2021. The universe consisted of 252 patients of both sexes. The sample consisted of 232 persons, and was chosen through an intentional sampling by criteria. In the research, a survey was used to obtain the information of each elderly people, and the perceptual method for the statistical analysis.

Results:

the female sex, ages between 65 and 69 years; primary schooling level, married marital status, living with relatives and good family functioning predominated in the studied sample. Regarding toxic habits, smoking predominated, and arterial hypertension and ischemic heart disease, with a high consumption of medications, were among the most frequent diseases.

Conclusions:

there was a high rate of elder people with epidemiological factors related to older age, as well as with others of the psycho-social kind that affect their health.

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