Evaluación del programa de desarrollo cognitivo"Inteligencia XXI"

Abstract

The present study has as its general objective the evaluation of the "Intelligence XXI" Program designed for the maintenance and generalization of skills and strategies of verbal intelligence, emotional intelligence, perceptual intelligence, numerical intelligence and inventive thinking in older adults, regarding the loss of cognitive skills that begin to appear in older people. The study design was oriented in an evaluative field analysis on a sample of one hundred ninety-one (191) older adults divided into four age groups in the range of 60 to 90 years, in turn, the group was divided in two subgroups of 95 and 96 subjects, a control group (the one that was not subjected to the program's cognitive training) and an experimental group (the one that was subjected to the program's cognitive training). Once the program was applied, a descriptive and correlational analysis of the factors under study was carried out to determine the existence of differences between groups or between variables using the SPSS vs. software. 24. The analysis of results showed some significant differences between the experimental group and the control group in the following variables: verbal, emotional, perceptual, situation resolution and decision-making and inventiveness. Finally, the study concludes that the application of the XXI Intelligence Program maintains the referred cognitive abilities, slowing down their cognitive deterioration and is improvable for others. Therefore, a set of improvement actions is required for those that need to be perfected and develop plans for the dissemination, empowerment and active participation of those that are effective for the sake of active aging aimed at the comprehensive well-being of older adults.