Quality of life in senior adults rural area and urban area. Municipio Miranda. Falcón state

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship in the quality of life of the elderly in the rural area and the urban area of Miranda municipality in the Falcón state. It was framed under the positivist paradigm, the type of research was non-experimental descriptive, Of the field and the population was 37 elderly adults of the rural area and 37 older adults of the urban area, selected through the intentional sampling. The technique used was non-participant type observation and a questionnaire with 62 items, validated through expert judgment and 99 reliability through Cronbach's Alpha obtaining a value of 0.76. The results found were: in both sectors women Are more than men, distributed between 60-81 years of age. In relation to the sources of income in the rural sector come from the trade which represents 32.43%, in the urban sector only 18% receives income for this concept. 43.24% of the rural sector has some disease and 67.57% of them do not receive treatment, in urban sector 64.83% suffer from some pathology. Regarding social inclusion, in the rural sector there are limitations to participation (51.31% do not), 40.54%, and it is difficult to relate to other people (40.54%). Self-evaluation of the quality of life, in both sectors, the elderly considered their quality of life to be good in general terms for the urban sector (72.97%) and rural (62.16%) associated with subjective actors.