Abstract

QUINTERO-MANTILLA, Margie Stefania  and  CERQUERA-CORDOBA, Ara Mercedes. General state of health and psychosocial profile of healthy or exceptional elderly of Santander, Colombia. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.1, pp.109-120. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-9998.2018.0001.08.

This study aimed to evaluate overall health and biopsychosocial profile of a healthy or exceptional elderly group in Santander, Colombia. The sample consisted of 50 self-perceived healthy older adults, with ages 75 and older, and coming from different provinces of Santander. Data were collected with the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Barthel Scale, Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire and the Mini nutritional Assessment. Results showed high means in the cognitive dimension, independence in Activities of daily living (ADLs), nutritional status and good self-rated mental health, general psychological well-being, social functioning and coping. This suggests a high biopsychosocial profile, related to differential factors in this group of adults with high level of longevity, which opens the way to exploring the positive dimensions in older adults, and it also provides evidence of the possibility of successful, healthy life in old age with a good quality of life.

Keywords : Older age; elderly; healthy aging; health; biopsychosocial.

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