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La dinámica social y el abandono del adulto mayor en el centro Gerontológico del Buen Vivir
(Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Sociales, Posgrado, Maestría en Trabajo Social, 2018-03) Morales Chango, Juan Carlos; Balseca Basantes, Jeanneth Elizabeth
The present research deals with the characteristics that the social dynamics presents in the “Cantón Patate” and how they relate to the abandonment of the elderly people users of the services provided for the Gerontological Center of Patate. At the same time basic concepts are presented about the familiar life cicle and the aging process based on the role played by elderly people inside the family structure considered as a social support network, at the same time it stablishes that a guide of gerontological atention is applied for elderly people at risk. At the same time it describes the guarantees that provide the Ecuadorian State to the elderly people through the Gerontological Centers at nacional level, they are considered as reception services for the atention and offered care to elderly people over 65 years old or older who require of special protection in a temporary or defined way that can not be taken care for their relatives; elderly people who do not have a place to live permanently, they are in abandonment situation, lack of family references, poverty and extreme poverty, in high risk conditions who express their willingness to enter.