PINTO, F.; PINTO, Fernanda.
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.
