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MUNOZ GONZALEZ, Daniel Antonio. Cognitive stimulation as a strategy for psychogerontological care for the elderly with dementia. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2018, vol.44, n.3, e1077. ISSN 0864-3466.

Comprehensive care for the elderly with dementia constitutes a major challenge for government health agencies responsible for proposing public policies. In Mexico, an initiative is proposed to confront the disease and to follow up the patients who suffer it. Consequently, the purpose of this communication is to inform about the benefit of cognitive stimulation as a preventive, economic and effective strategy for the psychogerontological approach to patients with dementia in the primary health care. It is proposed from a comprehensive perspective, centered on the person, involving the biopsychosocial needs of the user. It is expected that cognitive stimulation would improve the life quality of the elderly with dementia and will encourage individual and family coping with the disease.

Palabras clave : Cognitive stimulation; psychogerontological care; dementia.

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