Playing in old age - a playful and valuable leisure

• Autor(a) principal: Nakamura, Ana Lúcia
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Hildebrand, Hermes Renato
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Kairós (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kairos/article/view/50724
• topic: Ocio valioso; Lúdico; Juegos digitales y no digitales; Jugando en la vejez.; Palavras-chave; Ócio valioso; Lúdico; Jogos digitais e não digitais; Brincar na velhice.; Valuable leisure; Ludic; Digital and non-digital games; Playing in old age.

Play at 60, have leisure, and play using technology? Those over 60 and using digital and non-digital games have certainly overcome, and still overcome, many prejudices, and are open to countless realities, possibilities and playful learning. This study aims to understand the meanings and the importance of playfulness in, and for, old age, especially playful leisure. For this, the main topics covered and their references are: aging (Beauvoir); leisure (Cabeza), the various types of leisure and in particular valuable leisure, as a complement to active aging that can make it satisfactory; the games (Gallo); the sense of playfulness for the elderly, providing subsidies for the understanding of playfulness and its benefits, from the point of view of the elderly (Matos, 2006). In a participant observation by the author herself, the research has as reference the activities with digital and non-digital games, 2015-2019, 1104 hours, 2 hours a week, to 65 elderly people, attended in three day centers for the elderly in Sao Paulo, SP, in the Bom Retiro, Saúde and Guaianases neighborhoods. Activities with games in day centers, which are stated as opportunities to discover a playful and very valuable leisure for the elderly.