Terapia de reminiscencia para mejorar la memoria en el adulto mayor que asisten al centro municipal de atención al adulto mayor n°1 de la ciudad de loja en el período 2018.

The present thesis entitled Reminiscence Therapy to improve memory in the elderly who attend the Municipal Center of Attention to the Elderly No. 1 of the city of Loja in the period 2018, has as general objective to improve the memory of older adults who attend the Municipal Center for Attention to the Elderly No. 1 of the city of Loja in the period 2018, through reminiscence therapy. The present study is framed in the type of quantitative-qualitative research-action and descriptive, the methods were applied: scientific, inductive, deductive, descriptive in the same way the technique that was used was the survey directed to the professionals and relatives of older adults, and the instrument applied to the 6 older adults was the Conductual Memory Test Rivermead, to determine the most significant problems: not remember names of their relatives, being the type of memory most affected the episodic, semantic and nondeclarative; moderate affectation of the memory tending to severe, after the application of the plan of activities of therapy of reminiscence, it was possible to verify improvement of the memory and at the same time facility to evoke events of his past life.Therefore, therapists are recommended to implement reminiscence therapy in older adults.

• Main Author: Lapo Lanche, Edith Maribel (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Language: spa
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: ADULTO MAYOR; TERAPIA
• Online Access: http://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/21528