Interdisciplinary approach to healthy aging in PHC, from the perspective of special health audiology and psychiatry

Abstract

Healthy aging is the process to promote the functional ability that allows well- being in old age. One way to operationalize it is through a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach, to work in the areas of action of healthy aging. Similarly, taking into account the Decade of Healthy Aging and the inclusion of the elderly in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and knowing REVISTA GEROCIENCIA what is available to achieve active ageing. The challenge is the application of the healthy aging strategy, starting from the identification and development of the intrinsic capacity and the functional capacity in the elderly and choosing some elements of the areas of action, which it is feasible to execute from the speech-language pathology and psychiatric hospital and thus transform our realities by putting them at the service of the elderly in the communities and their families it APS.