To represent the specific behaviors of this reflection, a schematic model was sought that simultaneously covered health promotion and the Health Policy for the Elderly, with a view to adopting actions for greater awareness, resulting in attitudes of empowerment and suggestions for gerontogeriatric nursing actions. Nola Pender s Health Promotion Model(10) was used. Through a chart, it manages to represent the behaviors that can lead to health promotion. Nola Pender s Model was developed in the United States in the 1980s, but was little explored in Brazil. It emerges as a proposal to integrate behavioral sciences with nursing theories, seeking to identify factors that influence health behaviors in a biopsychosocial context. It seeks to support its.
