O cotidiano dos idosos na instituição assistencial Nosso Lar do município de Santo André

• Autor(a) principal: Avelar, Maria Cristina de Mello
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12530
• topic: Instituição de longa permanência; Idosos; Moradia; Cotidiano asilar; Asilo para idosos; Instituicao Assistencia "Nosso Lar" (Santo Andre, SP); Long-permanence institutions; Elders; Housing; Asylums daily life; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This research studied the daily life of a given long-permanence institution for senior people, Instituição Assistencial Nosso Lar , located in the city of Santo André in the Metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil. Based on field research and dialogues with its residents, the aim was to identify elements that can contribute to the debate related to the services offered by those asylums. The literature proposes thinking about the institutionalization of old people through analytical categories such as: the different concepts of Aging; the Family s role; the Daily life; the House; and the Long-Permanence Institutions (here also indistinctly called asylums, resting or sheltering houses, and geriatric clinics). This research intends to better understand the daily life of the studied institution, discussing it under the guidance of main authors. Observing visits were carried out in the Instituição Assistencial Nosso Lar , capturing data regarding its routine. Six interviews were made with the residents (three ladies and three men), all aged 60 years or more, asking their opinion about their daily life in the institution as well as their day-by-day relations with other persons. As the main conclusion, the research demonstrated that each resident has adapted differently to the studied institution, producing dissimilar perceptions about their own current conditions at the house. Such result is also supported by the literature, which talks about singular aging forms, influenced by the history of life of each person (including familiar relations, friendships, and different routines of life at past dwellings). The differences in the adaptation process are also associated to the particularly difficult circumstances experienced by each of the interviewed persons before their institutionalization. In all the cases, the arrival to the Institution is presented as an alternative. Nevertheless, the research showed that, in fact, rather than an alternative, the institutionalization represented for those persons the lack of alternative, i.e. the last housing option given their precarious financial and health conditions, as well as their poor familiar bonds