This article aims to characterize the socioeconomic profile of a group of elderly people who care for the elderly in the city of Santa Maria / RS and to analyze how these caregivers perceive their quality of life. The snowball technique was used to find the participants, with seven caregivers taking part in the research. There were findings regarding satisfaction with the caregiver occupation, the influence of ...
That research has as objective understands the body representations and transvestites' ageing that act in different professions in a city of the interior of RS, what deserves prominence, for forming a social group of high vulnerability. Like this, little it is known on the ageing process and body of them, starting from their own representations. The methodological transport of the work was guided by the qualita...