La intervención del Trabajo Social Gerontológico y las relaciones familiares de los Jubilados en el programa de promoción del envejecimiento activo del Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social Ambato

Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation is to determine the importance of the gerontological Social Work intervention, also its impact on the family relations of retirees in the Program for the Promotion, called Active Aging of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security Ambato, due at this stage of the life cycle they suffer great changes in the bio psychosocial factors that affect the quality of life of retirees, in addition to this, the lack of intervention of professionals in the gerontological area makes that these changes are not treated and channeled to face them better. The methodology that was used centrally in the investigative process was the Critical-Propositional paradigm, for which we applied observational techniques allowing to know the social and family reality of retirees within the Program for the Promotion of Active Aging of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security Ambato, The survey was applied in order to know the reality of retirees and with the statistical method allowed to identify the negative and positive factors of the intervention in the Gerontological Social Work and its incidence in the family relations. The proposal after the research is the creation of an intervention protocol from Gerontological Social Work for the Program for the Promotion of Active Aging of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security Ambato, in this way will be based an intervention in an organized and comprehensive manner where Involves the multidisciplinary team work, allowing the familiar socio-reality, the psychological and physical state of each person, detecting the areas where there is conflict and focusing on the strengths, social and family resources to find the best alternative of intervention to improve their social conditions and to strengthen family relationships that are very important at this stage of life.