Estudio de caso: influencia del vínculo en la emocionalidad y los olvidos de un adulto mayor durante la pandemia por covid-19, en Villavicencio meta.

Abstract

Recently, the world population has faced an adverse situation due to the pandemic due to the contagion of Covid-19. Government measures issued in order to mitigate the spread of the virus have included mandatory preventive social isolation and, particularly in Colombia, it is the elderly, who have been isolated for a long period of time, a strategy that seeks to reduce the possibility of contagion. , taking into account the high vulnerability of this population, but it is to be considered that such isolation has been able to have effects on their mental health, favoring the appearance of symptoms related to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), specifically in functions such as memory and emotionality, reflected in forgetfulness and changes in mood. These changes are referred to by themselves and / or their caregivers, who are also part of the observed phenomenon, because with them and with the people that older adults usually surround themselves with, it is with whom the social ties observed in the present are established. research as strategic management resources that could prevent the occurrence, even of other types of deterioration and dementias of high incidence in the adult population today. Forgetfulness, emotionality and its relationship with ties have been observation categories of the present study, which from a psychoanalytic approach allow us to understand the implications of ties in the life of the elderly and their changes in this stage, related to emotions and aspects of memory, specifically forgetting. Thus, based on a case study of an adult over 70 years of age and using a qualitative methodology, the phenomenon has been approached by means of a semi-structured interview, with which the discourse is addressed within the participant's frame of reference, of Thus, the analysis of their experience is carried out from an interpretive hermeneutic epistemology, so that their reality is understood by alluding to the phenomenological paradigm that accounts for it. Keywords: Older adult, bond, emotionality, forgetfulness, social isolation, pandemic and covid-19.