Dynamics of healthy aging communities

• Maria Cristina Faria ^[1]
  1. [1] Instituto Politécnico de Beja

     Instituto Politécnico de Beja

     Beja (Santa Maria da Feira), Portugal

     
• Localización: Proceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences.5th - 6th May 2016 / coord. por Saul Neves de Jesus, Patrícia Pinto, 2016, ISBN 978-989-8472-82-3, págs. 108-114
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In our time, populations around the world are aging and most people can expect to live into their 60s and more.However, older age does not imply dependence. The growing number of older adults in our society requires newperspectives of health care system and new manners to organize and promote the development and wellbeing of oldpeople, in each real community. Communities depend on organizations to ensure their health, quality of life and toincrease healthy environment and satisfying their needs. That implies the use of community interventions properlyplanned. So, we must know the answers too many questions and we must provide many paths to find the best way toconduct elderly people to happiness. Where are the old people? In terms of geographic space, where are they now?Where do they live? What do they look like? How to communicate with them? What do they like to do? Or are ableto do? Who can support them in their dreams? This paper presents a multifactorial approach to aging reality in thecommunity. It shows the relevance of community participation, the sense of community, the relevance of promotionhealthy aging, and explain the importance of an epidemiological profile of functionality and quality of life of elderly.