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A promoção de qualidade de vida em idosos através da história de vida e da fotoelicitação - um projeto de intervenção
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Este projeto de intervenção reflete sobre temas como a Qualidade de Vida e Histórias
de Vida de Idosos. Atualmente, o envelhecimento é um fenómeno que marca cada vez
mais a sociedade. O serviço social gerontológico encarrega-se de conhecer as causas e os
efeitos dos problemas sociais, individuais e coletivos das pessoas idosas e de como
conseguir que essas pessoas assumam uma ação organizada, tanto preventiva como
transformadora. As histórias de vida são constituídas por memórias significativas, que
demarcam o percurso de vida do idoso, em que refletidas e partilhadas, não só enriquecem
a vida diária do idoso como também contribuem para uma melhor intervenção por parte
do profissional, neste caso, do técnico superior de serviço social.
Procurou-se neste trabalho validar empiricamente metodologias inovadoras no
trabalho com idosos, nomeadamente, a fotoelicitação no intuito de analisar a perceção
que um grupo de idosos utentes de um Centro de Dia tem das alterações ocorridas na sua
qualidade de vida. Deste modo, foram utilizados a fotografia, como estímulo dos
participantes envolvidos no estudo, e o discurso que eles produziram sobre as imagens
visualizadas. Dos dados obtidos, procuraram-se identificar aspetos da qualidade de vida
tidos por relevantes pelos idosos, por forma a sustentar uma intervenção posterior do
técnico superior de serviço social, de acordo com as necessidades e expetativas do idoso.
This intervention project reflects about issues such as Quality of Life and the Life Histories of Elderly People. Nowadays, ageing is a phenomenon that decisively shapes society. Gerontological social service is entrusted with knowing the causes and effects of social problems, individual and collective, of elderly people and also being able that these persons assume an organized action, not only preventive but also transformative. Their life histories are made of significative memories, which demarcate an elderly life’s path, and when they are reflected and shared, they will enrich not only this elderly’s daily life, but will also contribute for a better professional intervention, in this case of the social service graduate staff. We sought in this academic work to empirically validate innovative methodological approaches in working with elderly people, especially photo-elicitation; with the objective of analyzing the perceptions that a group of elderly people, residing in a Day Care Centre, have of the changes that happened in their quality of life. Thus, photography was used as a stimulus for the participants in this study and the narratives they produced about the images they visualized. Of the data obtained, we tried to identify aspects the elderly thought relevant in their quality of life, in such a manner that a sustainable future intervention, by the social service graduate staff, is done according to the needs and expectations of the elderly.
This intervention project reflects about issues such as Quality of Life and the Life Histories of Elderly People. Nowadays, ageing is a phenomenon that decisively shapes society. Gerontological social service is entrusted with knowing the causes and effects of social problems, individual and collective, of elderly people and also being able that these persons assume an organized action, not only preventive but also transformative. Their life histories are made of significative memories, which demarcate an elderly life’s path, and when they are reflected and shared, they will enrich not only this elderly’s daily life, but will also contribute for a better professional intervention, in this case of the social service graduate staff. We sought in this academic work to empirically validate innovative methodological approaches in working with elderly people, especially photo-elicitation; with the objective of analyzing the perceptions that a group of elderly people, residing in a Day Care Centre, have of the changes that happened in their quality of life. Thus, photography was used as a stimulus for the participants in this study and the narratives they produced about the images they visualized. Of the data obtained, we tried to identify aspects the elderly thought relevant in their quality of life, in such a manner that a sustainable future intervention, by the social service graduate staff, is done according to the needs and expectations of the elderly.
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fotoelicitação narrativa qualidade de vida idosos serviço social photo-elicitation narrative quality of life elderly people social service