Estética na qualidade de vida de idosos

• Autor(a) principal: Cervi, Caroline Reimann
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/2744
• topic: GERONTOLOGIA; ENVELHECIMENTO; ESTÉTICA; AUTOCUIDADO; QUALIDADE DE VIDA; BEM-ESTAR SOCIAL; IDOSOS; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA

Introduction: Aging is a matter of prime importance, not only globally, but for the Brazilian reality. Whether due to genetic inheritance or the bone structure, some people just get old better than others. It is important to keep in mind that the lifestyle is a serious determinant of how a person will age. Taking good care of yourself, in general, help the skin as well as the rest of the body, aging as well as possible. The welfare of the aesthetic vision is an important part of our overall good health. Among many factors and aiming at the physical and psychological well-being of the individual, it becomes increasingly important to encourage active aging policies and programs, ensuring the continuation of a productive, healthy life. Objectives: Investigate what really means the aesthetic quality of life in elderly people. Methods: This study will be qualitative with quantitative with descriptive analysis T, the relationship between quality of life and aesthetics. The method guides for the use of a structured questionnaire consisting of 26 questions drawn with predominantly closed questions (WHOQOL-BREF), quantitative part, and a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with guided questions, qualitative part. The search allows to scale markets, meet demographic, social and economic profile, partner of a population, among other possibilities. An Interpretative non-experimental approach with an exploratory study of a convenience sample. All statistical data analysis was conducted in SPSS 20 software and the α level of significance was set at 5%. The data will be summarized according to their frequencies and descriptive measures. The analysis of variance of the domains relative to the effect variable will be analyzed by ANOVA One-Way Test. The study was approved by CEP-PUCRS. Results: The study had the participation of 49 elderly patients with the average age of 69.08, most of them were women (30) which means 61.2%. The education level predominated was higher education with 16 (32.7%) eldery, with a significant majority of married elderly 30 (61.2%). The majority, 43 elderly (87.6%), performs care for their aesthetic, and 85.7% somehow believes that aesthetics affects the quality of life and health. Conclusion: Were identified two elderly profiles in data collected relating quality of life and aesthetics, and most mentioned the importance of aesthetics; and a small group don t perceive any importance. The present study showed that, for the vast majority of the elderly participants, performing actions on their physical care, and cosmetic / self care / self-esteem, and relationship is important to their quality of life and well being.