CABRAL, Benedita Edina da Silva Lima.; MELO, José Anchieta Bezerra de.; SILVA, Kátia Ramos.
Abstract:
The last census executed by the Brazilian Geography
and Statistics Institute (IBGE) indicates that 11% of the Brazilian
population is formed by elderly people, and the State of Paraíba
is in the ifth place with the largest contingent. This fact has
led sentient changes in the contemporary society and, for this
purpose, the long-term care institutions for elderly (ILPI's) are
realized as part of social reality and they are necessary to the
elderly care that are at risk. This article intend to discuss the
complex social reality through the presentation and analysis of
an extension project results, in social sciences ield, executed
at São Vicente de Paulo Institute, in Campina Grande, State
of Paraiba. In this institution, we emphasized the practices
of sociability built between the institutional mediators and
the rest home residents, and between them and our group
of extension workers. In order to observe the proposed
objectives, we adopted the oral history methodology, through
the technic of life history, and participant observation. It was concluded that, on one hand the (ILPI) can be seen as a formal
environment and governed by rules, on the other hand,
the institution can enable new experiences of generational
sociability among people who share the same social status
and physical space, and between them and the caregivers.
Diferently of the stereotypes produced by common sense,
about the social immutability that features a (ILPI), we hope
to contribute in order those diferent perceptions about the
institutionalized aging may be recognized.
