{"id":5185,"date":"2021-04-09T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T10:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/a-pandemia-veio-reforcar-a-importancia-de-os-mais-velhos-conseguirem-ser-autonomos-mais-tempo\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T10:24:19","slug":"a-pandemia-veio-reforcar-a-importancia-de-os-mais-velhos-conseguirem-ser-autonomos-mais-tempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/a-pandemia-veio-reforcar-a-importancia-de-os-mais-velhos-conseguirem-ser-autonomos-mais-tempo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The pandemic has reinforced the importance of the elderly being able to be autonomous for longer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1646045463888{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;]&#8221;The pandemic has reinforced the importance of the elderly being able to be autonomous for longer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the topic is healthy aging, &#8220;the focus is not on wanting people to live to the age of 150, but on having a shorter and shorter period of dependence at the end of their lives&#8221;, emphasizes Cl\u00e1udia Cavadas, the vice-rector of University of Coimbra, which admits the institution&#8217;s commitment to taking the lead in research in this field.<\/p>\n<p>Chosen by the United Nations with the theme for this decade (2021-2030), in view of the urgent challenges raised by the accelerated aging of the world&#8217;s population, the concept of healthy aging was discussed this week in a forum co-organized by the United Kingdom Embassy in Lisbon and the University of Coimbra, whose vice-rector, Cl\u00e1udia Cavadas, spoke to DN about the research paths in this area.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<style type=\"text\/css\" data-type=\"the7_shortcodes-inline-css\">#default-btn-c49520feeac7a4c15d9fed8ff41c5fe0.ico-right-side > i {\n  margin-right: 0px;\n  margin-left: 8px;\n}\n#default-btn-c49520feeac7a4c15d9fed8ff41c5fe0 > i {\n  margin-right: 8px;\n}\n<\/style><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dn.pt\/edicao-do-dia\/09-abr-2021\/a-pandemia-veio-reforcar-a-importancia-de-os-mais-velhos-conseguirem-ser-autonomos-mais-tempo-13549012.html\" class=\"default-btn-shortcode dt-btn dt-btn-s link-hover-off btn-inline-left \" target=\"_blank\" id=\"default-btn-c49520feeac7a4c15d9fed8ff41c5fe0\" title=\"ver not\u00edcia completa\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read More<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the focus is not on wanting people to live to 150, but on having a shorter and shorter period of dependence at the end of their lives&#8221; &#8211; Di\u00e1rio de Not\u00edcias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crup.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}