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1st Int. Transborder Conf. of the Timor Island: Timor %u2013 Science without borderDili, 7-8 May 2025143Interdisciplinary Actions In The Physical And Educational Care of Older Adults In The CommunityJo%u00e3o D. Pereira, Francisco B. Pereira, Carlos M. F. Mart%u00ednez*, Julio C. P. Suzarte and Giraldo M. SantanaUniversidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa%u2019e*Corresponding authors: carlfontma22@gmail.comAbstractInterdisciplinarity in science refers to the integration of knowledge and methods from different academic disciplines to address complex problems that cannot be understood by relying on a single discipline. This approach allows for a more complete understanding and deeper analysis of phenomena by considering different perspectives and contributions from diverse areas of knowledge. Professionals who work with older adults require, more than capacity, complementarity, since in isolation they cannot respond to the complexity of the aging process. Physical and educational care for older adults in the community requires interdisciplinary studies to ensure that professionals from different disciplines can work together to provide more comprehensive and effective care. Some of these studies aim to influence the improvement of this care. This research addresses the scientific problem: \physical and educational care for older adults in the community of Becora, D%u00edli, TimorLeste?\opportunities, the need to develop interdisciplinary actions for the physical and educational care of older adults in the community. This element constitutes the main contribution of the research and, consequently, supports the assessment of its feasibility. For these purposes, the following methods were used: theoretical-logical history, documentary analysis, systematization, modeling, systemic-structural-functional methods; empirical-level methods: surveys, interviews, expert consultations, and satisfaction tests; and statistical-level methods: descriptive and inferential statistics. The abstraction process allowed the identification of the interdisciplinary nodes that require actions integrating medical, nutritional, physical, and educational care within the context of healthy aging for older adults in the community. This demonstrates that interdisciplinarity is essential for comprehensive, high-quality care for older adults, improving their quality of life and promoting their well-being.Keywords: Interdisciplinary actions, older adults, aging.