Estrategia para el fortalecimiento del esquema nutricional del adulto mayor en hospitales geriátricos

Abstract

This proposed project is designed with the purpose of giving attention to the problem identified in the elderly population that suffers from significant health diagnoses caused by the presence of malnutrition. In this sense, the objective is “To formulate a strategy to strengthen the nutritional scheme of the elderly, by identifying needs that improve the well-being and quality of life of this population”. To carry out an assessment of the formulation of the project, the method of ex ante evaluation criteria proposed by the National Planning Department is implemented, which is raised under the Logical Framework Methodology (MML). On this assessment, it is allowed to know that the result to provide a solution in the short term is oriented to the generation of a training campaign of adequate nutritional practices, for at least 4.000 people a year, and the provision of complementary food aid through allied companies of the public and private sector, and the donation of Bienestarina, to be delivered to the 321 elderly residents of the E.S.E San Miguel Geriatric Hospital and Nursing Home. The foregoing establishes in the discussions that the strategy of replicating this project model to more geriatric hospitals in the country can be a viable public policy option to preventively complement the best of the Nacional Government in the framework of care for the elderly.