The Social Aging Representation and Third Age: The Study about a Case during the Group of the Third Age in Caratinga/MG

• Autor(a) principal: Josianne Katherine Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UNEC
• Texto Completo: http://bibliotecadigital.unec.edu.br/bdtdunec/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=21
• topic: Terceira idade; Idoso; Velhice; Representação social; Aging; Elderly; Third Age; Social Representation; SAUDE PUBLICA

lt;p align="justify"gt; In debates during the Forum of Agenda 21 on the region of the Basin Caratinga River, it was suggested that the public service and civil society stimulated the formation of groups of the third age. One knows that in many groups of the third age exist there is valuation of the youth and denying of the aging, and in the group of Caratinga? The purpose of this study is to analyze how the elderly ones of a Group of Third Age of Caratinga are representing themselves. We’ll try to understand how their experiences the individuals influence in this representation of aging, how men and women role and to these representation and the reasons that had taken them to participate of the group. The data had been collected through the participant observing, focal group and individual interviews. They participate of “Forro”, men and women who were 45 years old or over, widowers and co-inhabiting with other familiar ones. Women show their bodies through customs for dancing trying to attract men through their dance and flirting, they try to get a not serious relationships or even forever. In relation to the social representative of elderly, we observe the denyal connotation of it, valuation of youth. To be older to them is the one who does not dance, does not go out, does not meet other persons. Other social representations of them were observed the aging as a category, social exclusion and limitation. The ones who is older and understand the aging as a category, are the oldest women. Some interviewed people feel discriminated for family and society, the social ways looked for the elderly people forms to join specific generation groups. This justifies the sensation of being part of “Forro”, but also the familiar solitude. Some of them normal aspect of life so, taking aging and death with responsibility, we cannot avoid thinking about limitation. About gender differences, they answered that to stop dancing, to meeting people, are not attributions that can be characterized as men or women. Others tell that aging is worse for men, since freedom of retirement and being elderly brought them a kind of illusion. They were always more free than women, therefore they do not tend to see this phase of their life with as much enthusiasm. Therefore, in “Forro” there are many old difference kinds of social changes in life occur because of age, however say that life of young people is better, since they have their problems. Also we cannot understand that the aging should be better for one of the gender, since they get older different, historical, social criteria, genetic and enviroment ways. We conclude that the programs for the Third Age are good alternatives, some points are reorganized and they do not try to generalize the process that is personal, social and historical.lt;/pgt;