Emprendimiento social y envejecimiento activo de los adultos Mayores en Salinas de Guaranda –Provincia Bolívar

Abstract

The research topic presented is: "SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ACTIVE AGING OF OLDER ADULTS IN SALINAS. Active aging in older adults, today is a major issue because you can prevent certain diseases that are accompanied in old age, considering that you must start in adulthood and thus create a lifestyle. The research compares active aging with two study groups that are, the Older Adults of the Gerontology Center "Tierno Despertar" that do the activity of social entrepreneurship, and older adults who do not attend any support group of the community and are engaged in the work of agriculture or sale of other products in the area, in total there are 84 older adults. It also considers the activities that take place in the Gerontological Center "Tierno Despertar" the same that is worked based on the Technical Standard for the implementation and provision of gerontological services and the importance of active aging in particular in an area of Bolivar Province, because it is evident that there is a professional and empirical aging. The unknown to be solved is how Social Entrepreneurship Influences the Active Aging of Older Adults.? The line of research is about exclusion and social integration, quantitative methodology was used with the application of a questionnaire that measures active aging, the same that was validated by a group of experts. As a proposal for the inclusion of the Elderly of the Community is to work with the application of the dimensions: physical, social and mental through management with several support groups located in the Bolivar Province and with the transversal axis that is the family.