Crazy Lady is an early old woman and needs care

• Main Author: Santana, Jorge Alves
• Publication Date: 2017
• Other Authors: Rosenthal, Benjamin
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Revista Kairós (Online)
• Download full: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kairos/article/view/2176-901X.2017v20i2p27-44
• topic: Adélia Prado; Old Age; Care.; Adélia Prado; Old Age; Care.; Adélia Prado; Velhice; Cuidado.

“Old Age is a way of feeling cold that assaults me/ and a certain acidity”: that’s the beginning of a poem of Adélia Prado, in which she deals with the thematic of aging, old age and the care that is necessary in this phase of life. In opposition to the initial impression that these stanzas transmit to us, the perspective of Adélia Prado on this entire poem and on the other poems that we’ll discuss in this article, is the concern for the elderly, for instrumental practices of care, and for the bio-political, humanitarian and democratic conditions that may optimize the elderly life in our society. Adélia Prado has an illusio about the inexorable of old age and we will discuss this illusio. We will also discuss dispositions towards care that are evoked in her poems. These care practices may alleviate the “natural” physical, psychosocial deconstructions that old age might bring to all of us. In this work we deal with conceptual elements from Simone de Beauvoir, Leonardo Boff, Pierre Bourdieu and others.