Violencia patrimonial en los adultos mayores del cantón Tisaleo

Abstract

Older adults, being a priority attention group, an aspect enshrined in the supreme norm in its article 36, are exposed to the various types of violence that exist in society, including patrimonial violence, a relevant aspect that must be studied; since having reached an advanced age where they have accumulated assets as a result of their efforts throughout their lives, they are exposed to the psychological and emotional manipulation of the members of their family nucleus when interests are involved. This generates that many of them are abandoned in the open, for which the main objective of this work is focused on "Establishing the level of patrimonial violence towards the elderly of the Tisaleo-Ecuador canton"; for which it has been necessary to apply a type of explanatory research, with the qualitative-quantitative method, which will allow reaching the expected in terms of the line of research that corresponds to "Social exclusion and integration". Thus, it has been achieved as an expected result that the older adult on average presents 48.8% of patrimonial violence in the core of their family environment, which leads to the conclusion that it is necessary to adopt complementary legislative measures to guarantee fundamental rights. enshrined in the Constitution in favor of the elderly, so that this vulnerable group of Ecuadorian society obtains a dignified life.