Niveles de desempeño en actividades básicas de la vida diaria en adultos mayores institucionalizados y no institucionalizados de la ciudad de Pamplona.

Abstract

From the area of occupational therapy activities of daily living activities are aimed at caring for our own body and are related to the survival of the individual. (AOTA. 2010).

Therefore this research, part of occupational therapy to determine the levels of performance of activities of daily living with a representative sample of 20 seniors institutionalized and 20 seniors not institutionalized in the city of Pamplona, thus to achieve the levels of performance in older adults, which were based on the implementation of a plan of action entitled "performance of activities of daily living in older adults" oriented to the training in activities of daily living such as mobility in bed, toiletries and transfers, achieving a semiindependence in the execution of the activities of daily living, functional.

This work is based and organized in different types of investigation(research), which in this study is

defined

as a type, descriptive of mixed investigation(research) and correlacional, carrying out the relation between(among) the levels of performance(discharge) and the activities of the daily life obtaining like proved the utilization and interpretation of the instrument: Test of the activities of the daily life of Arango and Rodríguez, taking the semi-dependence as relevant information in the activities of Mobility in bed, personal hygiene and functional movements in major institutionalized adults and the activity of functional movements in the major Not institutionalized adults. On having realized the comparison in the major institutionalized and not institutionalized adults one determined that the major Institutionalized adults present major difficulty and limitations in the execution of the activities of the daily life, on the other hand the major adults present minor impede in realizing the activities of the daily life.

Confirmed this comparison in this population I hold of study, follow-up of the training was realized in the activities of the daily life across devices of low complexity, achieving the semi-independence in the execution of the activities. Confirmed this comparison in this population I hold of study, follow-up of the training was realized in the activities of the daily life across devices of low complexity, achieving the semiindependence in the execution of the activities.