Yes, one can make the prevention to all age and, yes, people even very aged can improve their health again. It is what takes out again presentations dedicated to the theme to Age in health, at the time of the 11es yearly Days of public health
With the baby-boomers who arrive in mass at the age of the retirement, the research in public health accelerate on the utility and the efficiency of the prevention of the illness and the promotion of health by the eldest’s.
A social life activates, a sign of health
The active aged people on the social plan (companies out domicile, friendly relations or of neighborhood, etc.) are they merely in better health because people in better health have tendency more that the other to maintain this kind of activity?
A recherche1 reveals that the social involvement acts altogether in a positive manner on health. In a public health perspective, to establish a context favorable to the social activity becomes therefore an objective.
One speaks here, among others, of day centers, of public places, of adequate services of transportation, of proximity of the current services (leisure’s, trades). One also speaks of simple enough things, like continuous sidewalks (without slopes for the access of the cars), and of complex enough enterprises as the revitalization of the suburbs that the resident aged don’t want to leave.
Accessibility, promotion and support
As factors of health improvement, it is necessary to see also to the accessibility of the health care, to the precocious detection of the physical or psychological health problems and to the establishment of support networks for the helping.
As for the individual practices, as the good food and the physical activity, it is necessary to promote them and to sustain them with programs adapted to the clientele, of which the immigrants and the illiterate. For each of these aspects, there are interventions to make all kind and on all plans. domestic, local, municipal, regional and provincial.
As point of organ to the technical enough presentations, Greta Chambers, journalist octogenarian and chancellor of the McGill university, came to underline the necessity for a society to take care of those and those " who lost the habit, for various reasons, to take care of themselves". It is a social justice question, she/it affirms. An attitude that she/it tells to have herself learned of his/her/its grandmother.
Soon a plan for the health of the aged population?
Several announcers and participants clearly showed the wish that the government, through the national Program of public health, established a general plan of action aiming the health of the aged population. One asks for a " coherent plan", who is based on a general vision of the possibilities of action. Because, if one knows what interventions operate best, the time is certainly come of apply them in a more systematic manner.
They also expressed with enthusiasm their conviction that the conditions of life of the eldest’s could know big improvements in years to come. And the aging people have themselves a role to play in this regard, affirm the Dr Richard Moisan, participating in these Days,: " The pensioners have of the time and expertises. They have all advantage to enter into various committees and organisms, and to fight to make advance the things. "
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