Rehabilitación en adultos mayores. Sentido de vida y de muerte como indicadores de salud

Two groups’ experiences are presented of participative diagnostic and intervention, evaluating the potentialities of an institutionalized old adults, for develops a sense of the enriching life and a healthy approach to death. Equally different processes of dying in life are valued; from the limitations characteristic of the age and those imposed by the society; and lastly, it provides theoretical indicators of the death processes preparation and the sense of life. We worked with reflection group and formative group respectively. The main results show that still exist contradictions associate to the vital characteristics of to the stage and the vision of the death like close final, identifying the potentialities of the category zone of potential development (ZPD) to promote a life with sense that allows a healthy travel and personal developing until the death. Keywords: sense of life, death preparation, old man, ZDP, participatio