Health promotion in senior care centers in the face of coronavirus through the use of puppets

Abstract

Confinement as a preventive measure against COVID19 has entailed a high emotional and psychological cost to the general population and especially to the elderly. The promotion of factors associated with resilience is relevant, in order to promote emotional management and positive coping in the face of the situation presented, which allow generating favorable affective and behavioral conditions for future scenarios among the members of the community that constitute the elderly centers.

Expressive resources and artistic techniques offer processes and results that strengthen resilient factors. We offer the experience of working with puppets used as an intermediary object aimed at promoting resilience and the relational climate that exists in centers for the elderly due to confinement.

The importance of the elaboration process, the results obtained, as well as the dissemination of both aspects in areas outside the centers for the elderly are taken into consideration, both in what speaks of the enhancement of the elderly in the development of the activity undertaken, such as with regard to the use of the puppet as a communication tool already internally between the elderly and their caregivers, as in the relationship established with groups and agents external to the elderly centers.