Revisão integrativa da literatura acerca do processo identitário/identificatório do ser envelhecido.

Abstract

This is an integrative literature review that has order to examine publications developed with human beings referring to the thematic oldness/aging and it’s identity/identification construction in national and international databases. The strategy search was in: B-ON (knowledge online Library), LILACS (Sciences Health Latin American and Caribbean), MEDLINE (Search System Online and Medical Literature Analysis), PUBMED (Medicine’s National Library in the Biosciences field), and SCIELO (Scientific Electronic Library), in 2011-2015, the terms used were: human aging, old age, old and identity, and process, and all connected with the word: identity, the central study theme. The end result: the first relating about sample characterization, and second time, presented the sampling determinants. As a result it was the elderly identity/identification process is comprised from three categories: identity construction, environment and social identity interference. Moreover, the publications conclusion reveals that all the old identity process is the elderly being identification and old age social construction, considered isolation or associated. In this sense, there is the intention to increase the value of the elderly, the recognition of being, the possibility of a change in the culture of devaluation of the aging person, and to put into practice what advocates public health in the elderly's health care, whether, the exercise of the citizenship of the person who grows old. Thus, understanding the human identity complexity by the thematic discussion and the old age and aging relationship with it’s emphasized, there is need in a broader context deepen this construction, involving all the axes discussion found and reported conclusive relations.