O trabalho na velhice: novas possibilidades

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, José Bernardo Enéias de
• Orientador(a): Mercadante, Elisabeth Frohlich
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Gerontologia
• Departamento: Gerontologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ontologia social; (Re) socialização; Idosos > Emprego; Idosos > Condicoes sociais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Social Ontology; (Re) socialization
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL::SERVICO SOCIAL APLICADO::SERVICO SOCIAL DO TRABALHO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12475

The present research shows up capability and possibilities for elderly people (senior citizens) to (re) socialize by work and new occupations, even considering the natural aspects of the aging process. It recognizes the development of their skills in the learning process, for a continuous social reproduction, as a way of social insertion and quality of life. This study discusses the adaptation of elderly people to the new social model when cultural values and subjective perception create barriers in socialization thus unbalancing emotional aspects and making functional and social changes. These non-perceptive variables damage the social adaptation specifically concerning the decision-making capability and performance of actions with their own means: autonomous and functional independence. The investigations are based on social-economic transformations through which the world is going, mainly in issues of the population s aging process and the social reproduction as a way to survive, making new prospects possible for elderly people, thus not regarding them as a non-productive part of the population