Longevidade: novas conquistas, novos espelhos, novos olhares

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Maria Arlene de Almeida
• Orientador(a): Cerveny, Ceneide Maria de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• 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 Psicologia: Psicologia Clínica
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Longevidade - Aspectos da saúde; Envelhecimento
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Longevity - Health aspects; Aging
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20665

Longevity is a global phenomenum. The Active Aging is advised by World Health Organization (WHO), as optimizing opportunities for health participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. The word active refers the continuing participation in social, economic, cultural, spiritual and civic affairs, not just the ability to be physically active or to participate in the labour force. In the understanding of health, it refers to physical, mental and social well being as expressed in the WHO definition of health. Maintaining autonomy and independence for the older people is a key goal in the policy framework for active ageing. Brazil is a continental country, and the elderly is far away to be homogeneous. Brazil has some particuliarities about ageing: in it, the velocity of ageing is higher, because the effects of the influence of the tecnology of information (TI) and the globalization. Besides, as an emergent country, it has some differences from the developing countries, who met the elderly last century, who got richess before got old. As a results, in Brazil there are some infeccious diseases, that are not under control, and they occur concurrently with chronic- degeneratives ones in the elderly. The matter of this study is not explore the theme on the looses of the elderly, but in the years to live, and the opportunities that could be open to realise new dreams. The authors use the lens of the Theory of Complexity to understand the elderly as multifaceted matter. The method used is the qualitative, with the design of Narratives Analyse. The title of the study is: Longevity- New Conquers, New Mirrors, and New Visions. The general objective is to perceive the meening of how is to live the elderly. As specific subjectives one intends: to understand the motivation on life in this fase; if there are still dreams to be lived; to understand the importance of the memories in the elderly; to perceive how the elders feel the belonging on elderly; and how they live their sexuality