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Gerokomos

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PUIG LLOBET, Montserrat; LLUCH CANUT, María Teresa  and  RODRIGUEZ AVILA, Nuria. Nursing assessment: detection of loneliness and social isolation in old people in risk. Gerokomos [online]. 2009, vol.20, n.1, pp.9-14. ISSN 1134-928X.

Objectives: Identify the valuation instruments that can be useful in the nursing profession to detect loneliness and social isolation in the elderly at risk. Methodology: The review of multidisciplinary instruments that value the loneliness and social isolation from databases and search manual diagnostic and scales to determine the loneliness and social isolation in the NANDA Taxonomy and Taxonomy Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC). Results: Of the eleven instruments analyzed, seven of them feel the loneliness of both subjective and objective manner. However, differences exist in the form of valuation. Conclusions: The scales of social value and loneliness are a useful element in the detection of elderly at risk of perceiving and suffer loneliness. The results confirm that nursing professionals have adequate instruments to detect the risk factors of loneliness and social isolation.

Keywords : Fragile Elder; diagnoses of nursing NANDA; scales of valuation of social risk; loneliness; Nurse NOC.

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