Educational booklet on oral health care for the elderly

Brazil will have an overpopulation of elderly people, with growth of around 3% per year, reaching 33% of the Brazilian population by 2050. The World Health Organization stresses that oral health is an important action to be taken to achieve healthy ageing. The aim of this study was to report on the experience of an educational initiative carried out in a family health unit. This is a descriptive experience report. An educational booklet was produced with guidelines and oral health care for the elderly based on the steps presented by Reberte et al. (2009), using the Canva application, in the LILACS and SciELO databases, using the descriptors: oral health, oral health education, elderly. The stages that comprised the study were: selection of content related to the theme, screening of illustrative material, preparation and layout of the booklet, validation of the content by a specialist in gerontology.