Social support, health and oral health promotion in the elderly population in Brazil

• Main Authors: Silvânia Suely Caribé de Araújo (Author), Danielle Bianca de Lima Freire (Author), Dalva Maria Pereira Padilha (Author), Julio Baldisserotto (Author), Cássio Murilo Pereira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp), 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The world people increasing aging, including Brazil, emphasizes the importance of measure to deal with this situation. In Brazil, the majority of elderly is woman, lives in houses with other generations, is economic reference in these houses, is in the low economic level, has at least one chronic di...