Estimulación multisensorial en adultos mayores para mejorar las habilidades psicomotrices

Abstract

The present research had the following question: how multisensory stimulation will improve psychomotor skills in the elderly population in the community of San José de Alpamálag. Multisensory stimulation is a technique that is based on a relationship between human beings and nature, in recognizing the parts of the body and feeling pleasure when doing it, through the sense organs: smell, sight, hearing, touch, vestibular and proprioceptive, being able to recognize the environment, are the doors that we have to interact with the environment by receiving information, analyzing and being able to act or respond appropriately to the stimuli received. The focus of the work wasquantitative, quasi-experimental cross-sectional type. In which an initial evaluation was applied to the sample obtained, the intervention of the technique, and then the final evaluation was carried out again. The scales, indices and tests were applied to 30 older adults, 09 men and 21 women, the evaluation tools were the Barthel index, the Tinetti scale and the Mini-Mental State Examination test. The results were that with the Barthel index there were no changes showing through the Wilcoxon signed rank test (1,000), with the Tinetti scale (0.046) verifying that the technique was effective in the risk of falling while in the Mini -Mental State Examination test (0.001) it was observed that at the end of the intervention there were no longer patients at the levels of severe impairment and moderate to severe cognitive impairment.