La red de apoyo primaria y su predominio en el enfoque eudaimónico del adulto mayor ecuatoriano

Abstract

Currently, older adults are potentially affected by factors that call into question their priority attention, abandonment, begging, violence, malnutrition and illiteracy that harm not only their physical and emotional state but also their well-being and full enjoyment of their rights. The following essay exposes the means of social protection of Ecuadorian older adults that attend to economic, social and environmental needs, particularly in the specialized intervention of their needs, which are incipient to maintain the multiple demands that aging brings. Therefore, the strengthening of the primary support network and its predominance in the eudaimonic approach of the Ecuadorian elderly, unfolds the objective of promoting, strengthening and improving the capacities of this age group, directing it to optimize the relationship of bond with the family and the community in the participation of a full and active life taking into account their leading role in front of it through an innovative proposal. By virtue of the foregoing, a descriptive bibliographic research methodology of scientific journals, books and articles is used, generating greater credibility and promoting new ideas based on inductive analysis; However, a qualitative approach is exposed as a comprehensive study of the individual within a social environment. Finally, the research leads to a humanistic model of intervention in Social Work that highlights the leading role of the study subject as a complete being equipped with skills that seeks self-satisfaction by empowering themselves of