Prevention and protection of health in aging people

2007 
The morbidity of the aged is analyzed by the epidemiologystatistical methods using the data of general medicine, where the clients of services are mostly the aged. The results show that the aged suffer mostly of the respiratory, circular and the bonemuscular diseases, as well as of the digestive, psychiatric and urinary diseases. That means that the chronic mass disease prevail, which can b" better prevented than treated. Having in mind that in the health protection of the aged, physiological ageing followed with the better quality of life should be preserved, that could be realized through the permanent fight against risk factor and by performance of the measures in the field of the health education, and the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Discussing the problems of the health protection of the aged, it is concluded that an Institute for health (and social) protection of the aged should be established. It is interest of the society, not only because of the health, but also because of the social and economic problems, with the increasing number of the aged in the total population.
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