The profile of the abused elderly person is a woman of more than 75 years, that coexists with children or couples authoritarian, immature or hostile.

-nursing professionals maintain a confidential and relationship of trust that places them in a suitable place to detect abuse or violence against the elderly

-0.8 per cent of older persons suffer abuse in older people with some sort of dependence, abuse can reach 1% and in some countries the prevalence reaches 4%

Barcelona, November 2011- on 15 and 16 November nurses / ACE of the primary centres of Catalonia have been updated about health problems and procedures that are usual in the primary care consultations. A total of 20 practical workshops to improve knowledge and skills.

How to deal with abuse in the elderly has been one of the workshops that were conducted. As the doctor’s family, Montse commas, educational workshop “the infermeras carried out a comprehensive approach to the patients, establish a relationship of confidentiality and trust with them.” They are holders of the confidences of patients and therefore are suitable for detecting ill-treatment or violence against older persons “.

“The objective of the workshop has been explained interview techniques to suspicion that one older person is being subjected to ill-treatment. In fact, as indicated by the DRA. Eat “violence against older persons is one of the forms of violence most silenced and hidden, as they do not denounce their situation,” so “is so important to learn interview techniques and know well the indicators that warn us that may be ill-treated”.

According to the teacher, the violence in the family for the elderly has increased, because each time there are more elderly people, as well as older people with dependency and vulnerability. The DRA. Commas gives us the profile of the patient subject of family violence “is dependent on more than 75 years old woman, who live with children or authoritarian couple (uncompromising) or dependent (immature) or hostile (aggressive)”.

The motivational interview techniques has been the center of one of the workshops in these days nursing update III of the AIFICC. The aim has been to give tools to the patient to help you to be more autonomous and autorresponsable of their health problems, and to leave this attitude so dependent on the health professionals. It also is intended to achieve, through this motivational interview, a better adherence to treatment, as for example, the fulfillment of the diet in patients with diabetes.

Psychologist Gemma Peralta, teaching workshop explains “it is important to nurses / ACE know what kind of motivation can bring the patient to correct therapeutic planning”. According to highlights Gemma Peralta “patients have a motivation by filiation which means that their mental situation determines its capacity of motivation (for example)” cannot do diet because I just separated the couple “), by success, i.e., the patient has a target that matches the health objective”, and finally to power, here the motivation of the patient, says, already have knowledge and experience in the subject and need the final evaluation of the health professional “.