Objetivo: Verificar as mudanças na vida cotidiana em pessoas idosas institucionalizadas provocadas pelo impacto da doença foi o objetivo geral desta pesquisa etnográfica. Método: A pesquisa decorreu com 99 residentes de uma instituição de longa permanência para idosos, no sul do Brasil. Houve uma pesquisa documental da Instituição e a permanência do pesquisador para a familiarização deste com o ambiente e todo ...
With the advancement of modernity, health professions focus their studies on isolated diseases, leaving the experience of the diseased to the side. The aim of this study was to learn how a group of elderly people explain the causality of the chronic diseases that affect them. This is a qualitative study conducted with 54 elders, health insurance users, residents of the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Th...
Objective: Verify the prospect of institutionalized elderly about the physical changes associated with aging. Methods: There were 21 elderly in a Home for the Aged in Londrina-PR. Qualitative Research and cross-sectional, in which was held a single interview unstructured supported by a script with six questions developed by the authors was performed. Data analysis was performed using the hermeneutic-dialectic m...