La violencia hacia el adulto mayor en hogares de bajos ingresos del cantón Santa Rosa desde un enfoque cuantitativo

Abstract

The main approach of this research is violence against the elderly in low-income households in the city of Santa Rosa, a problem that has been made visible for some time and entails personal, social, and psychological impacts, among others. Different studies at the world and national level have shown that when reaching an advanced age people should be under different types of care according to their chronological and psychological age. The current context of the canton of Santa Rosa, denotes that a considerable number of relatives of older adults neglect the guidelines of their care due to social and cultural factors, unemployment, underemployment, poverty, neglect, among others; which makes this priority attention group potential victims of different types of violence; mainly because, since there are vast economic limitations in a home, these are conducive to states of helplessness, anguish, and wrong decisions where the older adult, not being an income-generating entity in most cases, is seen more as a burden of which there is to disengage or neglect it.