Abstract

ALVAREZ MUGUERCIA, Reyna Zara; GONZALEZ GRASSO, Aylen  and  MUSTELIER MOJENA, Silvina. Characteristic and attention of health to the old patient, from the perspective of the relationship disability and aging. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.1  Epub Apr 18, 2023. ISSN 1727-8120.

The number of people that you/they cohabit with some disability type has gone in increase in the last century. This tendency associates to the high number of patient with chronic illnesses not transferable and to the populational aging. A revision of documents, scientific articles and news published in the last five years to know the new tendencies as for the patients bigger than 60 years was developed. The objective of the present work is to describe the relationship among disability and aging, its particular characteristics and the attention of this population's buccal health. It was verified that the patients conform the age it advances, they suffer morphological changes to level of their fabrics and systems. The reported more common buccal illnesses are the dental cavity, illness periodontal, total or partial edentulism and oral cancer. The planned activities present an increase in the promotion focus and prevention of health, as well as the one redraws of plans of long term maintenance. It is concluded that the study is pertinent and necessary for the updating and preparation of dentistry professionals in times where the increase in life expectancy is a trend. The study is developed in the current year as part of an investigation project.

Keywords : Disability in older adults; population aging; health care.

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