As práticas dos centros comunitários para idosos e a promoção do envelhecimento ativo: uma revisão sistemática

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the actions developed in the senior centers in the view of active ageing. The method used was to search for studies on the LILACS, Medline, SciELO and Web of Science databases, involving the population of community centers, focused on aspects of quality of life and health promotion and active ageing constitutors. This research resulted in 17 articles that triggered the affection concepts to the pillars of active ageing which are interwoven with the quality of life and promoting health. It was concluded that the studies involving elderly members of senior centers showed that such equipment has contributed to the implementation of the principles of active ageing. However, there is a lack of analyses that demonstrate its effectiveness and, when necessary, indicate issues which need to be corrected from the feedback of the data generated by surveys, providing grounds for drawing up some kind of guideline and correction of actions for these spaces.