Histórias de idosos: sementes para cultivarmos uam educação para uma velhice bem-sucedida

We understand that the successful old age is not confined only in the analysis of quantitative aspects concerning the economic situation of the subject that gets old, but this special way of aging is related to other values, such as dignity, happiness, self-esteem, willingness, autonomy, independence, social involvement with family and friends, among others. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the human aging process, considering the history of life of ten seniors who fit the profile of successful old age, seeking to identify elements that contribute to educational thinking in order to get a successful aging. In this perspective, we argue in this study, the idea that we need to learn to engage in experiences that more than providing satisfaction and well-being in the moment in which we conducted, serve as a potentiating to a successful old age. Thus, throughout this thesis we question: what are the present indicative in the histories of life of elderly people, considered successful, which may contribute to an education that people experiencing their age more satisfactorily. This is a qualitative study, that took as universe a methodological oral history, in which we used as a technique of research a semistructured interview as a part of their life history, with emphasis on consideration of the following categories: diary routine, with emphasis on social harmony in the family, at work and in friendship groups of leisure and physical activity, self-knowledge and the learning experiences throughout life. To get the objectives outlined, as well as lectured on the categories analyzed, we support our reflection on the theory of the course of life, which includes human aging as a historical and cultural contextual reality. Our research revealed, among other things, that successful aging is coupled to an active lifestyle, where the involvement in physical activities, recreational and social experiences throughout life is important for increasing self-esteem, autonomy and joy of living, conditions that enable successful old age. Our study also revealed that the educationfor successful old age is linked with the consumption along the life, educational activities which broaden the possibilities of social interaction between people, even among different generations, since the interaction is important to learn and accept our possibilities and limits.

Histórias de vida de mulheres idosas :um estudo sobre o bem-estar subjetivo na velhice

The elderly population growth in Brazil and in the world is an incontestable reality, arising from a significant declining rate in mortality and fertility, resulting from the remarkable improvements in the quality of life of the people. Associated with the introduction of new technologies in the medical area, these issues have been highly contributing for the increase of the population longevity. The numbers of the elderly in Brazil and in the world show female population predominance within the aging segment, a phenomenon known as the feminisation of the old-age . Aging, therefore, is nowadays one of the primary issues and that has been mobilizing the Brazilian s society, since the development raised from this new reality brought with it enormous challenges and complex social implications which are already felt in the daily lives of the societies. My work experience among some age groups has shown that aging is a much differentiated process which has instigated my interest in understanding why aging has to face an overwhelming and painful experience for some people and enriched and full of signification for others. Overviewing, this research aimed to understand the aging development through the analysis of the processes of signification and production of meaning that permeate the aging and the subjective well-being of three aged women participants of the Project Health and Citizenship on Third Age /CEFET-RN, that evidenced attitudes and behaviors concerning the integration and the activity toward the elderly population. The methodological strategy used was History of Life, starting from collecting data based on deep interviews. The analysis of data evidenced that the elderly well-being is a unique and distinct meaningful experience for each person, concerning each story of their lives within differentiated social, cultural, economic context, from this perspective one can demystify the concept of that aging occurs in a homogeneous way for everyone, everywhere and with the same rhythm. The narratives presented in this research showed the human development as being a dialectic, discursive and interactionist process which extends throughout the adult life and continues to the aging life. The guarantee that development and aging are a parallel phenomenon always in interdependence on the preceding phases of live, are corroborated within the studies. This present study confirms that the elderly population can be a phase of growth, personal realization and continued development, without disrespecting the heterogeneous and the subjectivity of the person who ages. Notifying those healthy and well-succeeded aging experiences, this issue has the intention to contribute to demystify the concept of aging as a social problem, illness needed to be treated, and the stereotypy of the elderly being dependent and unproductive

Construção social do envelhecimento e experiências da velhice

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Uma cartografia do envelhecimento na contemporaneidade: a velhice e a terceira idade

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Estilo de vida na velhice: Samira Cristina Jóia. -

Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva - FMB

Atitudes e conhecimentos de agentes comunitários de saúde em relação à velhice

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Representações da velhice em alguns contos de Guimarães Rosa e Mia Couto

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

História oral de idosos asilados em São Carlos-SP: velhice, asilo e memória da cidade (1950-2008)

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

O ato fotográfico: memória, prospecção e produção de sentidos na velhice

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Protagonismo político e social na velhice

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Cartografias do envelhecimento na contemporaneidade: velhice e terceira idade

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

O ato fotográfico: memória, prospecção e produção de sentidos na velhice

O livro, bastante instigante, é fruto de uma oficina de fotografia realizada com dois grupos de idosos da Universidade Aberta à Terceira Idade da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (PR), nos quais os participantes fotografaram orientados pelas seguintes perguntas: O que é importante na vida, hoje? e Que imagem ou cena você tomaria agora para representar algo que ainda não aconteceu em sua vida, mas que você pretende que aconteça no futuro?. Assim pautados, os grupos produziram imagens relacionadas a sua atividade corrente, família e amizade, afastando-se assim da valorização visual, através das fotos, de reminiscências da juventude ou alguma espécie de retorno ao passado pela via do presente. Nesses termos, a pesquisa, de certa forma, enfraqueceu o estereótipo de um idoso inexoravelmente atado ao passado e o mostrou capaz de tentativas de prospecção do futuro, e ainda em busca de produção de sentidos. De posse de resultados como o descrito, a abordagem obedecida pelo livro revigora a discussão construcionista no contexto da Psicologia Social, reafirmando que a realidade não está dada a priori como objetividade absoluta, mas é construída na interação humana, como processo

Protagonismo político e social na velhice

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Em busca dos sentidos produzidos pelo ato fotográfico na velhice

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Institucionalização da velhice e regressão: um olhar psicanalítico sobre os asilos dos velhos

Even with several technologies, politics, laws and to knowledge that looks to secure the worthiest conditions of aging, the asylum of olds still marks presence in the contemporaneousness, like a sign of the aging badly succeeded. The present work is the result of practices carried out in institutions of long permanence and, among the effects of the institutionalization of the old age, the most attention was given here to the mechanism of the regression, analyzed through the light of the psychoanalysis.