PSYCHOLOGIAL FACTORS RELATED TO MEMORY LOSS IN ENDERLIES
Zen Sênior program as a therapeutic resource – narrative revision and descriptive analysis
Abstract
Aging may cause cognitive disorders in the elderly, especially in memory. The objective of this
study was to identify key psychological factors associated with memory loss in the elderly
through articles published in recent ten years available in the main research platforms in the
country and report the experiments from Zen Sênior program, which objective was stress and
anxiety management. In the selected articles the main psychological factors related to memory
loss was anxiety, stress, depression, self-efficacy and metamemory, these being the main focus
when this topic is investigated. Then, it was appointed the socioeconomic and clinical factors.
However, the research showed no significant data to support the effects of these in memory.
Due the dubiousness of these factors, it is essential that health practices aimed at the elderly act
on interdisciplinarity, focusing primarily on mental health. To this end, the program Zen Sênior
from Unimed Litoral contributes to soften the impact of psychological factors on the memory
performance of the elderly.
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