Envelhecer: a plasticidade dos modos pelos quais a velhice pode ser concebida e vivenciada.

Abstract

The growing elderly population in the world has many reasons that go beyond the simplification of the reduction in the rate of mortality in developed and developing countries. This phenomenon has attracted the scientific community that these changes also reflected in increased production about the motivations and consequences of this new global reality and Brazilian consecutively. From the analysis of the demographic revolution that has occurred in Brazil and abroad in recent years, the subsequent creation of protective laws for the "new" part of Brazilian society, the emergence of institutions for asylum only for the elderly and increasing academic production on the theme "Old Age", this work aims to analyze the various ways in which old age can be designed and experienced. Interviews with residents of the neighborhood of Liberdade, in Campina Grande will be our source of inquiry and the multitude of feelings and projections provided by our characters / asked can promote understanding in the sense data to current age in history.