Introduction:

COVID-19 is a particularly frightening scenario for elderly adults, due to high morbidity and mortality. Designing actions for the comprehensive management of this disease is a public health priority in Cuba and a powerful instrument for preventing it.

Objective:

To design community and intersectoral actions for COVID-19 in elderly people.

Methods:

A quasiexperimental intervention study was carried out by means of community and intersectoral actions for preventing COVID-19 in elderly people from the family doctor’s office 16 of Policlínico “Guillermo Tejas Silva”, in the period from April to December 2020. The study universe was made up of 134 elderly people and the sample was 110. It was developed in three stages. The impact of the intervention was evaluated.

Results:

Female elderly people were predominant (50.9 %), together with ages 60-64 years (32.2 %) and the condition of active independent (45.5 %). With the implementation of the strategy, the level of knowledge of the senile increased (91.8 %), 100 % of the diseases were controlled, emotional disorders were reduced by 78.4 %, and 185 community actions were designed to prevent COVID-19 in the elderly people.

Conclusions:

Sustainability in the control of COVID-19 in the elderly people requires the mobilization and involvement of all sectors of society and the economy, united in a joint effort that sustains community actions.

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