A concepção de envelhecimento de idosos institucionalizados

• Ano de defesa: 2005
• Autor(a) principal: Massaia, Éverton
• Orientador(a): Souza, Valdemarina Bidone de Azevedo e
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: MEDICINA; GERIATRIA; GERONTOLOGIA; ENVELHECIMENTO; IDOSOS; CULTURA; INSTITUCIONALIZAÇÃO
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3676

This research aims at presenting references that enable the understanding of the themes that surround the aging process concept-building in parallel to the identification of the characteristics on the life context of institutionalized elderly people, to the analysis of the aging process concepts of these people and to the similarities and differences among such concepts. This study was developed in a qualitative approach based on the analysis of the registered dialogues of nine elders from two different gerontology homes in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil (five elders from institution A and four from institution B as referred in the present study). Data were collected from the life stories of each participant by means of narrative interviews used in order to stimulate the interviewees to disclose their stories. An adaptation of Schütse´s proposition was used to analyze their life stories. Theories such as Becker’s, Bauer’s, Gaskell’s and Morin’s guided the methology, as much as Morin’s, Stuart-Hamilton’s and Néri’s helped to scaffold the discussion. The stories were divided in contextual unities; subjects such as family, procreation, relationships, work, religion, wisdom, limitations, widowing and death, loneliness and institutionalization were identified in order to allow the identification of emerging dimensions. The identified dimensions were the psychosocial, biological and ethnic-cultural ones in the institution A elder’s aging process conceptions and the psychosocial, biological and cultural ones in the institution B elder’s aging process conceptions.The study’s purposes were reached; it was possible to confirm the research’s core thesis since the ethnic-cultural dimension from the institution A elders emerged while the same phenomenon did not occur in institution B elders. Thus, it was possible to display references to the discussion of a gerontological education towards the future needs based on Morin’s ideas.