title: [Education as a means to face challenges posed to the elderly].
abstract: This article discusses education as a means to face challenges imposed to the elderly by age and by society, thus allowing them to acquire new knowledge and obtain new opportunities to achieve physical and emotional well-being. Educational programmes for the elderly try to address these needs by working with several pedagogical procedures in order to awaken critical awareness in the search for a successful ageing. By means of continued education, these programmes have allowed the elderly to get up-to-date, acquire knowledge and participate in cultural, social, political, and leisure activities.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem/UFRGS. mar.u@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Margarita Ana Rubin
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Unicovsky
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans