Program of Socio-educational Intervention for the Permanent Education with Older Adults. Case: “My Hope in God” Circle. Coro, Falcón state

Abstract

Education is a permanent process, specially when the intention is to strengthen the functional capacities. This is a positivist study, a feasible project with a non- experimental, transectional or transversal design. The data collecting techniques were the interview and the direct observation, and the instrument was a questionnaire with a high Kuder Richardson reliability of 0.8026; it was applied to 27 older adults. The findings indicated that there are educational activities that contribute to the promotion of the health of older adults; however the permanence of these activities is scarce over time. Social integration occurs inside and outside the group with the family and community. There is an educational orientation and a social promotion but the conscious act of elders about the importance of a permanent education in their lives does not exist. It is recommended the development of educational programs for older adults so that they can acquire knowledge and be transmitters of their knowledge to other generations.