Keywords
adulto mayor
enfermería
investigación
Family health
elderly
nursery
How to Cite
Abstract
Objective: To describe the family health in families with elderly in the municipality of Funza. Materials and methods: Descriptive transverse study with quantitative boarding and a sample of 71 families selected by convenience. It was used the Instrumento de Salud Familiar (ISF GEN: 25). Results: More than a half of the families are extensive, distributed as modified extensive (47%) and extensive (16%), there predominate family cycles with adults (45%), teenagers (28%) and the old family formed by a couple of elderly (11%). The elderly and women are the ones who looked more sick, as well as old people who live in couples (81%), who belong to extensive modified families (61%), nuclear families (60%) and atypical (60%). The Health Center is the main support system for the families (83.1%). Almost half of the families consider themselves very littlehealthy (47.9%) satisfied (51%) and highly satisfied (17%). Discussion and Conclusions: The study shows that families with elderly are classified as healthy and satisfied. The participation of elderly in a social organization does not have an effect on a better perception of health condition and family satisfaction, opposite to other studies that register family benefits from participating in social organizations. Family health that reflects internal interaction in family is a very relevant area for Nursery, but requires more investigation and inclusion in individual health programs, public health programs and education programs for health professionals
The journal Investigación en Enfermería: Imagen y Desarrollo is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.