Abstract

CHONG DANIEL, Aida. Bio-psycho social aspects shattering elderly health. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2012, vol.28, n.2, pp. 79-86. ISSN 0864-2125.

This paper is a bibliographical revision of bio-psycho social factors, which have incidence on the elderly health, from the notion that aging is not a process of only one cause, but the result of a complex combination of interactions and structural and functional modifications, including biological, psychological and socio-environmental aspects. Given these elements, the objective of this paper is that practitioners of primary health care, address the health-disease process in the elderly, with a comprehensive and holistic conception.

Keywords : elderly; bio-psycho social factors; depression; stress; aging.

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