According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the increase in life expectancy has increased the geriatric population in the world and in Colombia it has resulted in the appearance of mental illnesses such as dementia and depression; the latter considered the disease of the present and the future.
Objective Identify the level of depression in adults from the Eterna Juventud club. Material and methods: The study was quantitative, not experimental, descriptive cross-sectional, a non-probabilistic sampling was carried out for convenience, 39 older adults participated, to process the information the statistical software SPSS version 21.0 with a multiplatform operating system was used, It was worked with the chi2. Results: the studied population presents a level of mild depression with 30.77%, followed by 23.08% with established depression.
Conclusion: The older adults of the Eterna Juventud club presented, in a higher percentage, mild depression, located in the age range of 70 to 79 years. It was found that the family relationship and age influence the development of depression.
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2022: 6.012
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