“Hygge” program to reduce the feeling of loneliness in elderly residents of the “San Pedro” Mixed Residential Care Center for the Elderly

Abstract

The general objective of the present work was to demonstrate the effectiveness of the "Hygge" program to reduce the feeling of loneliness in elderly residents of the Centro de Atención Residencial Mixto del Adulto Mayor “San Pedro”(CARMAMSP), the program was applied to a final total sample of seven elderly adults over sixty years of age; chosen according to their level of consciousness, which was a necessary characteristic for being a work that required understanding psychoeducational aspects.

This is an applied type of research, the design corresponds to the pre-experimental with pre-test and post-test, and according to the methodological approach it is a quantitative type of research. Regarding the work methodology, the program had a total of nine psychoeducational sessions applied to the population in a group manner; these were carried out twice a week during the months of October and November of the year 2023.

It was concluded that the "Hygge" program to reduce loneliness in elderly residents of the "San Pedro" Mixed Residential Care Center for the Elderly is effective, the results show that there was a decrease in the feeling of loneliness from 75% to 13%.