The WHO defines the care services such as the provision of health services by formal or informal caregivers, at home, with the aim of promoting to restore or maintain the highest degree of comfort, functionality and health, including efforts to dignify death.
To comply with such a definition is of the utmost importance to know the real needs and problems in the elderly, as well as their real preferences and expectations and feelings about health care in general and before the death, so as to be able to adapt our interventions to meet these expectations, providing quality health care and a dignified death.
To comply with such a definition is of the utmost importance to know the real needs and problems in the elderly, as well as their real preferences and expectations and feelings about health care in general and before the death, so as to be able to adapt our interventions to meet these expectations, providing quality health care and a dignified death.
A cross-sectional study was conducted in adults older than 60 years who live in the community, municipality of Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico. During the months from January to May of 2017. Demographic data were collected and a survey was conducted of the preferences and expectations of the older adult about your medical care, which was applied directly by students of Community Medicine in the homes; the survey is made up of a total of 20 items, being 12 items relating to medical care in general and 8 items to medical care prior to death. The data were analyzed with the statistical program SPSS 20.0 (SPSS Inc.).
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