Ressignificando momentos: a musicoterapia em Centro-dia de idosos

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Rafael Ludovico
• Orientador(a): Lodovici, Flamínia Manzano Moreira
• 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: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Musicoterapia; Envelhecimento; Assistência à velhice
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Music Therapy; Aging; Old age assistance
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL::SERVICO SOCIAL APLICADO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21169

Currently aging is the subject of multiple studies in academic and social means, emphasizing social and cultural practices that can avoid the loneliness or the inactivity of the weakened elderly or almost dependent. These practices seem to be the key to the creation of significant moments in the everyday life of these senior people, making the environment in which they are welcomed more humanized from the exemplary focus on successful music-therapy activities that meet the needs and requirements of the elderly. Nowadays, the day-Centers for the elderly gained a special importance being a social equipment that aims to provide hospitality, conviviality, care and protection for the senior, during the day, or part of it, when one family member or caregiver cannot provide better assistance more productive for the elderly. The music-therapy is one of the knowledge areas that can bring a positive interference in a tax form to own its area of concentration and performance that allows offer music-therapy activities in accordance to the requirements and characteristics of aging. In the interface of these two knowledge areas is that the present masters research whose objective was: (i) at first, to conduct a systematic review of available publications about the topic, which were analyzed in its specific contribution to the needs of the elderly person; (ii) next, the work seeks to demonstrate how the implementation of music therapy service in a day- Center for the elderly, describing the music-therapy procedures and techniques applied there. The study counted with the collaboration of a group of 7 seniors who participated in the sessions of music-therapy in the period in which the survey was conducted. The methodology used was the action-research, a method that allows linking knowledge and action, and brings the involvement commitment of all members that take as active subjects of a process guided by a research project when the own elderly is summoned to be active in his own process. The results indicate that music-therapy attendances enabled the elderly, the opening of new communication ways, greater interaction and integration between all of that group, when it was possible to observe improvements in his body posture, in the vocal tract and respiratory, plus they reveal a greater well-being after the sessions. Well-being, that can help seniors to take a more active stance on the issues of the day, with some relatives including reporting a better living of the elderly in the family environment. In short, music-therapy practices, according to the cognitive stimulation and functional model, focused on elderly person, allowed the resumption and the development of new skills for the elderly served in the day-Center here in focus, the Koru