(Universidad Técnica de Manabí, 2012)
ALCÍVAR GARCÍA, MARÍA ALEJANDRA; LOOR QUIJIJE, KEYLA MARÍA; CERÓN, ELBA
During the aging process, the digestive system, like any other body, undergoes changes resulting both own use over time, as the diseases and surgeries accumulated during life or environmental conditions and risk factors that the individual has been exposed. The purpose of this study was to investigate which are digestive disorders affecting the elderly population who attend Cristo Rey Social Foundation, due to its quality of life. We interviewed 71 older adults, using the inclusion and exclusion criteria and were classified by age and sex. The result was that 67 people have constipation, 56 fight flatulence, abdominal pain, and 42.
These people have a regular schedule of feeding and tend to walk, we also find that 54 people drink coffee daily and 25 taking antihypertensives, which greatly influences that have some sort of digestive disorder. The results of this study show that older adults who attend this foundation, suffer from digestive disorders, caused by the physiological changes of aging and their inadequate quality of life.