The objective of this study, carried out by the Center for the Study and Research of Aging at PUC-SP, Brazil, in partnership with Staffordshire University – England, UK, was to analyze the action of volunteers from the National Pastoral of the Elderly, in terms of practical support and loving accompaniment. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study is cross-sectional, quantitative, with a non-probabilistic sample...
This article presents the results of a cross-sectional, quantitative study using the snowball sampling technique to analyze a sample in Brazil as part of an international research carried out in partnership with Red Interdisciplinar de Psicogerontología in seven more Latin American countries, from May to June of 2020. It presents the profile of a group of elderly people, of high social status, and their answer...
Introdução: A doença de Peyronie é uma patologia do tecido conjuntivo peniano que se caracteriza pela presença de uma placa de tecido fibroso na túnica albugínea dos corpos cavernosos, condicionando perda local da sua elasticidade com consequente curvatura do pénis em ereção. Por se tratar de uma doença do foro sexual é muitas vezes ocultada pelo paciente, embora seja causa de muita angústia e frustração. Atual...
How do we read the narratives of aging in the production of social gerontology? And this production points to what trends? How can these narratives translate in a better way of living? These inquiries acted as guide to the post-doctorate documentary research that mapped the academic production in the areas that crisscross the trends of social gerontology through the collection of 27 editions of the Kairos Geron...