Health promotion and completeness at attention to the elderly: a Brazilian reality?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2016v19i1p227-238Keywords:
Health Promotion, Aging, Integrality.Abstract
Bibliographical research in order to analyze the national scientific production addressing attention in the health services to the individual in its aging process, in the databases LILACS, CIDSAÚDE, SCIELO, MEDLINE, from the descriptors: Health promotion, Aging, Integrality, since the programs offered to the elderly in health units, do not prioritize a holistic view, but only specific pathologies. The analyzed material aims the difficulties that the professionals face in day-to-day care for the elderly, it is observed that the biological attention model is still strong, fragmented and a challenge to public health.