El centro de salud San Miguel inició sus actividades hace varios años y, desde entonces, empieza a ofrecer una gran variedad de servicios; sin embargo, su actividad fundamental es el área de geriatría. Actualmente la ...

INTRODUCTION: Senior Dance can be one of the Action Fitness / Body Practices to be integrated as a relevant therapeutic project within the guidelines of primary care and performed at USF, UBS and NASF. OBJECTIVE: This ...

A reduction in social contact among the elderly can result in unhealthy social isolation, and an increase in depressive symptoms. To combat this problem, services for the elderly are emerging, but little is yet known about ...

Objective: The goals of this article are to assess the level of preventive service utilization by older persons in Costa Rica and to determine whether there are differentials in utilization across socioeconomic status ...

Objective: The goals of this article are to assess the level of preventive service utilization by older persons in Costa Rica and to determine whether there are differentials in utilization across socioeconomic status ...

The growth of the elderly population and its health problems, due to aging, increase the need to be attended by an Emergency Services. Currently in the country, the main mobile health service available is the Mobile Emergency ...

A few years ago is happening a change in demographic and epidemiological profile world-wide, where the elderly population is increasing significantly, accompanied by non-communicable chronic morbidities, however, preventable ...

Aging of the population is an increasing reality in Brazil, and this process may elevate the number of disabling and non - communicable chronic diseas es among seniors, with possible alterations to their physical, ...