title: Senescence and senility: the new paradigm in primary health care.
abstract: Senescence and senility are themes of growing interest, considering the inxrease of the elderly population in the wrold, particularly in Brazil. Health care for the edlery should value to maintain quality of life, considering the loss process particular of aging and the possiblities to prevent, maintenain and rehabilitate their health condition. Knowing the everyday lives of the elderly has been a challenge for health care professsionals regardint the implementation of programs and actions that aim to maintain the balance of the health-disease process, and it is in this search that we have made efforts to constibute, effectively, with the strategies to strengthen the edlerly and their relatives so it becomes possible to trigger health promotion actions, especially considering that the challenge for the millenium is to build collective awareness to achieve a society for all ages, with justice and the guarantee of full rights.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, siciosak@usp.br.
authors.forename: Suely Itsuko
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Ciosak
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Braz
authors.forename: Maria Fernanda Baeta Neves A
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Nelize Gonçalves Rosa
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: Rubia Aguiar
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Alencar
authors.forename: Ana Carolina A Leandro da
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Rocha
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D001938:Brazil; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life