Cadernos Técnicos 03 - Saúde e Envelhecimento

Digital and Physical

Health and Aging is the theme chosen for the third volume of Cadernos Técnicos Santa Casa.

As Portugal is one of the European Union countries with one of the highest percentages of elderly people, the relevance of a transversal reflection is not only a necessity to stop the disease, but also a priority with regard to health promotion : from Alzheimer's prevention to the use of technologies by the elderly, from the importance of nutrition or oral health to specific care in the area of ​​orthopedics.

Coordination: DIRECTOR Edmundo Martinho; ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Maria Margarida Montenegro; DEPUTY DIRECTOR Samuel Esteves; EDITORIAL COORDINATION Dora Santos Rosa

Authors: Ana Luísa Neto (Internal Orthopedic Physician – Orthopedic Hospital of Sant'Ana) • Cátia Lage da Cunha (Intern, GMAG, SCML) • Cristina Vaz de Almeida (Postgraduate Literacy Director in Health, ISPA) • Dharma Singh Khalsa (Physician, President and Clinical Director of the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA) • Filipe Araújo (Rheumatologist – Sant'Ana Orthopedic Hospital) • Filipe Marques (Internal Orthopedic Physician – Hospital Ortopédico de Sant'Ana) • Filomena Gerardo (Project Coordinator, GMAG/UTEA, SCML) • George Perry (Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, USA) • Jácome Pacheco (Internal Orthopedic Physician – Hospital Ortopédico de Sant'Ana) • João Mariano (Scholarship holder, ISCTEIUL) • José Feliz [MGF Physician, Family Doctor, USF Cuidar Saúde (ACeS Almada- Seixal)] • José Mendes Nunes [Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA Medical School, Universidade New from Lisbon. Family Doctor at USF de Carcavelos (ACeS de Cascais)] • Luís Araújo (Internal Orthopedic Physician – Orthopedic Hospital of Sant'Ana) • Luís Gomes Peres (Dentist, Santa Casa Health Unit Dr. José Domingos Barreiro) • Marta Barroca [FGM Physician, Family Doctor at USF Gago Coutinho (ACeS of the Tagus Estuary)]• Mónica Andrade (Speech Therapist at the Maria José Nogueira Pinto Continuing Care Unit) • Rita Figueira (Speech Therapist at the Continuing Care Unit) Integrated Maria José Nogueira Pinto) • Rita Peres (Nutritionist at the Maria José Nogueira Pinto Continuing Care Unit) • Rogélia Vargues (Psychologist, GMAG, SCML) • Sibila Marques (Professor, ISCTE-IUL) • Sílvia Rego (Researcher, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Review: Marta Rosa
Illustrator: Cristina Cascais

Year of publication: December 2019
Editor: Editorial Center of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
ISBN: 2184-612X