CARMO, A. P.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5869659755023019; CARMO, Andressa Pereira do.
Resumo:
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.