Este volume, o 21, traz neste seu número (1), 25 artigos científicos, todos identificados com o DOI, e isso, reiteramos a cada número, graças aos esforços da Reitoria atual desta Universidade. Esforços institucionais que valem como motivação a que este trabalho de veiculação de resultados de pesquisas possa ser levado adiante por esta equipe editorial, e com muito gosto.Os trabalhos recebidos por esta revista s...
Esta Revista, filiada à Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde (FACHS/PUC-SP), no seu volume 21(2), traz, de início, um título que pretende jogar luz sobre certas reflexões enunciadas por Anne-Marie Guillemard (2018), a respeito da sociedade que vivemos, a “Sociedade da Longevidade”, quando se tem, segundo a emérita teórica, justamente a oportunidade da qual é urgente aprender a tirar partido em benefício de ...
Este volume 21(4) da Kairós-Gerontologia, faz, neste parágrafo introdutório, tributo à Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde (FACHS/PUC-SP) que a acolhe, permitindo que os trabalhos em favor da Longevidade, vindos dos mais distantes lugares do Brasil e do exterior, possam chegar, imediata e graciosamente – para leitura e referência a todos os que a acessam. Por que prestar tributo a uma unidade institucional...
Com grande satisfação apresentamos o volume 20(2), desta revista, com um total de 25 trabalhos em 2 modalidades: 22 artigos científicos, 3 relatos de experiência, ainda mais que, tributariamente aos esforços da Reitoria da PUC-SP, todos estão identificados com seu DOI.O título deste Editorial tenta dizer do vigor, do entusiasmo, com que vêm sendo produzidos escritos sobre o envelhecimento, submetidos para publi...
This journal, affiliated to the Faculty of Human Sciences and Health (FACHS / PUC-SP), in its volume 20, celebrates, two decades of uninterrupted academic placement, fidelity to a time that the name Kairós enunciates. It is from this volume 20 (1) that the happy institution of the DOI is also celebrated for the works published in its four regular volumes, with works concerned with issues such as longevity, agin...
This work aims to provide an analysis of old age, for gerontologists, psychologists, and professionals from different areas, taking into account the assumptions of Carl Gustav Jung 's analytical psychology and Jungian mythology, thus providing another insight about aging, expanding the study of this subject, still so unknown. The orixás are here seen as archetypal models, forms of aging, that point to the proce...
This study portrays the impressions of two adult men who have experienced the insane process of one of their family members and make us confront what a healthy old age means and the reality of an old age accompanied by dependency. The aim here is to discuss, on the one hand, what healthy aging means, or independent and active, and, on the other hand, raise the question about the problematic that is experienced ...
Long-stay institution for the elderly (LTCF) is not a new issue in Brazil. This institutional mode, however, needed to be expanded due to the significant increase in the elderly population, and reconfigured in its functions, given the changes in the Brazilian family, which becomes very useful to try to understand its current operation. The aim of this qualitative study of descriptive character, is to analyze th...
This article aims to revisit the history of almost 20 years of activity of the Post Graduate Studies in Gerontology, the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PEPGG/PUC-SP), as well as from such an undertaking, envision your prospects future. The methodological approach underlying the reflection here is the Documental Analysis. The results of the survey indicate that the adoption of the tripod Family-Com...
The vaccine, a derived substance chemically similar to an infectious and diseasecausingagent has, by immunization ways, attested immunological protection effects againstcertain infectious diseases by increasing the resistance of the human organism. A risk group, suchas the elderly, due to their vulnerability to the flu virus, need to effectively adhere to the annualimmunization campaigns. Currently, it is still...