Perspectivas actuales en la asistencia sanitaria al adulto mayor Current perspectives on health care for the older adult

• Main Author: Angel Julio Romero Cabrera
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2008
• Subjects: adulto mayor; geriatría; atención a la salud; Cuba; aged; geriatrics; health care; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/b52750174fe746119d7c0c65a88a17a3

Standing up to the challenges of aging requires a coordinated strategy, disseminating a geriatric focus among all the specialty areas that serve the older adult. This article addresses the reasons that justify this focus and covers the objectives, goals, and methods currently being proposed to develop the approach. Preventive and curative actions, but most importantly, the overall care of seniors and improvements to their functional status, are priorities for securing a better quality of life in old age.