A alimentação em instituições asilares: manutenção do corpo e esvaziamento da vida

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Renata Borba de Amorim
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/8631
• topic: Home for the elderly; Food; Power; alimentação institucional; idosos-assistencia em instituições; pesquisa qualitativa; idosos-condições sociais; Instituição de longa permanência para idosos; Alimentação; Poder; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO

This is an exploratory study in which we seek to understand the significance of eating from the view of institutionalized elderly. Working from the references of qualitative research, through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, we performed an approach with ten old-aged of both sexes, living in two long-term institutions for the elderly people, located in Rio de Janeiro. We used ethnography and the reflections of Malinowski as methodological basis to explore the researcher s impressions, the observation of internal codes, standards of behavior, imponderable phenomena of real life, the distribution of social roles and social organization of the community in an integrated whole, and as theoretical, the studies of Goffman and Foucault, in which the first author helps us to detail the nature and dynamics of these spaces while the second articulates the outstanding disciplinary matters. The feeding routine in the institution is extremely controlled and emptied of meaning. And, in view of food as an expression of personal identity, the meals schedule as daily events in the institution, the value that food assumes in the lives of these ancients and the central role that the operation of the kitchen plays for the good progress of the institution, we considered essential a paradigm shift through the redefinition of eating inside the shelters.