At the end of last year, the Portuguese urban police called Senior Census Operation identified around 44,000 elderly people in Portugal alone, isolated or in a vulnerable situation. With a country moving towards an increasingly aging population, it is urgent to think about how to keep our elderly active and integrated into society.

Intervention by António Fonseca, professor at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, on the RTP2 Civil Society program on the theme "Loneliness in the 3rd Age", available here (in Portuguese).