Health education practices for the elderly public: perspectives and reflections

Abstract

Objective: Review approaches on the theme of health education for the elderly, which can encourage and raise awareness for the use of educational processes with the elderly population in different contexts. Bibliographic review: The health of the elderly is an emerging and important topic to be discussed in the social sphere. And currently there are public policies that can guarantee the quality of life of the elderly, but, in addition, it is necessary to include them significantly in the society in which they live and make them protagonists of the healthy aging movement itself. Because the aging process can be healthy and pleasurable, as long as there are mechanisms and proposals that enable care for the elderly. Based on health education, it is possible to promote self-care and develop interactive and dynamic activities contextualized with the culture of the elderly. Final considerations: Literature shows that health, as a multifactorial field, requires efforts to be made to make health education more and more widespread, comprising issues that go beyond biological and also social, environmental, cultural aspects, among others. For this, it is important to have actions that work with intersectoriality and inter/multi/transdisciplinarity, considering each territory and context.