La vida tiene muchos desafíos, y la vida en la vejez no es la excepción. Durante la vejez experimentas cambios importantes, desde los que tienen que ver con la posibilidad de trabajar, la jubilación, la salud o hasta aquellos que tienen que ver con la pérdida de tus seres queridos. Afrontar de una manera positiva esta etapa de la vida te permite gozar de un envejecimiento saludable.
Envejecer no significa automáticamente mala salud, es normal que sientas temor, por eso es clave equilibrar estos sentimientos con el reconocimiento de las bondades y posibilidades que brinda cada nuevo momento de la vida. El envejecimiento saludable no solo implica adaptarse al cambio, es también una oportunidad para encontrar cosas nuevas para disfrutar, mantener la actividad física y social.
Anima a las personas adultas mayores para aprovechar al máximo los buenos momentos y mantener la perspectiva en los momentos difíciles.
A medida que las personas envejecen pueden perder cosas que solían ocupar su tiempo y le daban sentido a su vida, las actividades que disfrutan y el tiempo para realizarlas puede cambiar, aunque no lo noten a simple vista. Acompáñalas u oriéntalas para encontrar actividades que sean significativas y agradables.
Contar con personas a las que acudir para conseguir compañía y apoyo es un elemento de gran valor y soporte durante la vejez. A medida que las personas envejecen es muy posible que las redes sociales y el acceso a ellas se reduzca, por lo que es importante animarlas.
Si bien envejecer implica cambios físicos, no tienen que significar discapacidad, de hecho, muchos de ellos pueden superarse o mitigarse con hábitos saludables. Alienta y acompaña a las personas mayores a:
Les ayudará a aumentar la vitalidad, mantener la fuerza y agilidad, fortalecer el cerebro y su deterior, e incluso a reducir el dolor crónico.
Una alimentación equilibrada les brindará más energía y comer con otros puede ser una excelente forma de mantenerse en contacto.
Desarrollar hábitos de sueño saludables les permitirá dormir lo suficiente cada noche y aumentará sus niveles de energía.
Mantener un pensamiento activo y creativo es una herramienta invaluable para la salud a lo largo de la vida, en particular cuando las personas envejecen.
La plataforma virtual Aprender Salud de la Secretaría Distrital de Salud de Bogotá ofrece cursos gratuitos para toda la ciudadanía, incluyendo contenidos específicos en materia de salud mental que podrían ser de tu interés.
Además, a través del sistema de salud hay varios recursos disponibles para ayudarte a mejorar o mantener tu salud mental y bienestar.
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Disponible las 24 horas del día los 7 días a la semana.
Dirección: Carrera 32 #12-81 Bogotá, Colombia
Teléfono: 601 3649090
Código Postal: 0571
Horario de Atención: Lunes a viernes de 7:00 a.m. a 4:00 p.m. jornada continúa
Línea de atención a la ciudadanía: 601 3295090
Línea Servicio a la Ciudadanía – (601) 3295090
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Línea 123 de Urgencias y Emergencias
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Sitio Web de Prevención e Intervención
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to