Centro de atención para el adulto mayor Usme

Abstract

In the town of Usme there is a deficit of equipment, among them the health ones stand out mainly, since the town doesn´t have specialized services and some existing health centers don´t have the capacity and good physical and structural condition of the facilities, This means that a large part of the population has to travel to other localities and health centers to obtain these specialized services; One of the most affected populations is the elderly people and children, mainly the elderly people, who find it difficult to move around alone because their physical condition and topographic conditions of the sector. Based on this, in the next degree project, a level 2 health facility "Usme Care Center for the Elderly people" is proposed, which was designed with specific areas for the elderly such as intensive care, surgery room, clinics, hospitalization and recreation areas. . The equipment was projected in front of Caracas Avenue (Carrera 14) and 72b bis South Street, in the UPZ Gran Yomasa; the choice of the lot is given from a matrix of variables based on decree 533 of 2012, which has characteristics of lot inclination, adjacent roads, area, risk range, public transportation, among others. As a final result, the equipment was designed as an architectural project, which seeks to solve the problems discussed in the justification and it responds to the needs of the population, at a technical and regulatory level.