Riesgo de deterioro de autocuidado por abandono familiar en adulto mayor desde perspectiva enfermero.

Abstract

The world is undergoing a demographic transformation to geri-atric, in this sense, by 2050, the number of people over 60 years will increase from 600 million to almost 2 billion, and the percentage of people aged 60 and over is expected to double, passing from 10% to 21% and social abandonment constitutes one of the current manifestations of these denigrating realities of the personality. The present study had the purpose of identifying risk factors that condition the deterioration of self-care due to family abandonment in old-er adults in outpatient centers of the Republic of Ecuador.