Atención del personal de enfermería en la gerontología comunitaria en Cuba

in the xxi century, there is a peculiar situation, persons exceed the chronological barriers that man has set as the aging stage, which turns the population aging in perhaps one of the most important challenges for modern societes. that is why the importance achieved by this polulation sector demands an increasing moral commitment on the part of the health professionals and, particularly, of the nurses as health social mediators. the aim of this paper is to explain the work done by our country in the implementation of the program of the older adult in primary health care, as well as the participation of the nursing staff in its health interventions with this sector. a bibliographic review was made from october 2006 to january 2007. 16 bibliographies (national and international) were reviewed for this paper with a publication interval of 10 years for books, and 5 years for journals. it was concluded that the program of the older adult in cuba includes the new gerontological concepts, which demand a greater involvement of the family, the community, the political organizations and the non-governmental institutions in a collective work, where the protagonist is the older adult. aging may be an active and vital stage, we should not think about it as passive and dependent. it depends on all of us that the social image of the older adult not be distorted.