Toward primary health care adapted to elderly people

This Spanish-language piece summarizes a World Health Organization report entitled Towards Age-friendly Primary Health Care. The piece presents principles for primary health care centers that are adapted for older adults. These principles focus on three major areas: (1) information, education, communication, and training, including staff training in clinical geriatrics and patient education; (2) health care management systems, including adapting administrative procedures, such as patient registration, to the special needs of older adults, and supporting the continuity of medical care by having updated medical records ready and available at every patient visit; and (3) the physical environment, with clean and comfortable centers that adhere, as much possible, to universal design principles, thus making them usable by as many people as possible regardless of age or ability.