Percepción de la muerte en el adulto mayor perteneciente al hogar Asilo San José de la ciudad de Pamplona.

Abstract

The death is a controversial theme, because the people always are talking about it. The human being feels trapped when faces this problem, either the death of one family member, friend or himself. The purpose of this investigation is analyze the death perception by the old adult from Hogar Asilo San José in Pamplona city, throughs a case research for the life meaning and life strategies improvement, it’s a qualitative investigation, with a descriptive design and narrativecross section, where a study was made through non-participation observation, an semi-structured interview and life story. The population is 103 institutionalized old adults, where was taking two samples, male and female, the results were a positive perception of death at both of them, the principal factor for the death facing was the belief in a superior deity like God. Finally, is designed a study based in attitudinal and experiential creative values from the logoteraphy, in function of life meaning improvement.