Strategic actions aiming at elderly health are: implementing the Caderneta de Saúde for the elderly, with relevant information about their health, permitting better follow-ups by healthcare workers; Family Health Strategy; stimulating the Permanent Distance Education Program, implementing permanent education activities in the field of aging and elderly health, focused on workers in the basic healthcare network; establishing the Welcoming, by reorganizing the process of welcoming elderly patients in healthcare units; establishing Pharmaceutical Care, developing actions that aim at qualifying care delivery and access of the elderly population; guaranteeing Differentiated Care upon Admission, establishing global gerontological evaluation, performed by a multidisciplinary team, to all seniors admitted in a hospital, seen in an out-patient clinic, either institutionalized.
