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Despite most Portuguese people tend to get older in their homes, measures to promote aging in place continue to have poor public visibility when compared to the attention given to institutional solutions. As a necessary approach to promoting healthy aging, valuing aging in place strategies means responding to the needs of older people based on the contexts in which they live. In practice, this means not removing people from where they live to provide them with what they need but creating conditions there so that their needs are met as they age. It is precisely to verify «how this can be done» the main purpose of this paper, first through a discussion of the concept of “aging in place” and then by the analysis of concrete dimensions of operationalization of this concept, both in Portugal and in other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Becoming-Valéria" intends to point out the production of the novelist Maria Valéria Rezende: a 76 years-old catholic missionary. The aim of this paper is to capture the affections that cross her craft of writing through an expressive body of these affections. The meeting with the author encourages a movement that starts a writing freed from a linear narrative and also from a representation that creates a distance between the authors and the writer. The relations of forces in struggle and the power to affect and to be affected of Maria Valéria's writing-body-life were presented. That's a question of becoming, in which other forces are released in the course of aging and old age in the writer's missionary life as well as in her literature. The poetic language adopted has apprehended the vibration of the affections that infected the body of the writer and the author. A language of pathos, free from the logic of representation, is the experimental option of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which consists of an integrative literature review, aims at evaluating recent evidence about the relationship between performance in tasks involving executive functions and the understanding and production of conceptual metaphors. The descriptors "metaphors" and "executive functions", as well as terms related to the latter, were searched in Pubmed, Scielo and Lilacs databases. After following inclusion and exclusion criteria, seven papers with recent debates about the theme were selected. From the experiments described in the reviewed studies, it is possible to conclude that there is a relationship between performance in terms of working memory and inhibitory control and the understanding and production of metaphors. Also, aspects such as age, vocabulary size and degree of familiarity with metaphors are aspects that have modulated the relations between executive functioning and the understanding and/or production of metaphors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reports the experience lived with the elderly in the Beautiful Old Age Course, offered in a public university, from the efforts of the Tutorial Education Program group. The course was conducted in two modules, the first with 20 elderly, both sexes, 30 hours, working with group dynamics and conversation circles, with emphasis on the emotional design model problematizing aging in its various facets in the perspective of a successful old age. The second module of the course was linked to the 20-hour hands-on computer skills development work. It was noticed the importance of educational intervention and its contribution to redefine old age from the participants' reports. The experiences were positive, contributed with the increase of knowledge, led to reflections and new ways of thinking and acting about aging and enabled the e participants to engage in the digital word. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present participant research from a group of older adult women (aged over sixty years) reading and writing poetry. The research monitored whether reading and writing poetry helped in the production of new meanings about aging, as well as the reflection that the older adults had about the aging development phase and its aesthetic, social and cultural ramifications. After reading the poems produced and the descriptive notes of the meetings, the following categories of analysis emerged: the meetings as an area of appropriation, conviviality and re- flection for the participants; society and the possibility of an active position in aging; the appropriation of the body in aging: experiences and criticism of the aesthetic model; and memory: recollections and meanings. As a result of the poetry workshop a space was established for creation, sharing and social recognition, recovery of memories and reflections about the stigmas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study proposed in this paper aims to undertake a discussion about the aging of workers in contemporary capitalism and the motivations that have led older workers to enter the informal labor market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the relationship between the malaise of education professionals and psychosomatic expressed in the body as space of symbolization of the problems faced by public school teachers statewide, in the Middle Planalto Region of Rio Grande do Sul. The objectives were to check parts of the body most vulnerable and age of the teachers and to try to understand the symbolism of these health problems in relation to personal and professional aspects. The research was characterized by qualitative approach of hermeneutic type. The research participants were classified by age, according to the division of the World Health Organization and the affected body parts. This paper brings the results considering the orthopedic and trauma health problems, especially in the lower limbs between 46 and 60 years old and that the symbolism of their health problems, with regard to the professional aspect arises from the interaction in the school, where they suffer emotional stress, overwork and great mobility, generating high levels of stress; the problem of teacher malaise in their psychosomatic aspects and the necessity of a multiprofessional help system for this public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase in the elderly population especially in developing countries, like Brazil, is taking place quickly and became the subject of current studies in various areas of health. The aim of this paper was to study the influence of physical activity, nutrition and lifestyle on the aging process. A literature search was conducted in the databases SciELO, Lilacs and Ladindex, using the descriptors: aging, elderly, nutrition and exercise, which discussed the influence of nutrition and physical activity on healthy and pathological aging. The practice of physical activity and a healthy diet is extremely important for a good quality of life and a healthier aging. Scientific papers on physical activity and aging have shown the importance of exercise to improve certain dysfunctions and some sequelae of common diseases in the elderly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aimed to identify the epidemiological profile of aids in the elderly in Brazil. This is a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective study using secondary data performed through Departmento de Informatica do Sistema Único de Saúde considering the interval of years from 2000 to 2015. A total of 23.101 aids cases were notified, suggesting a trend of linear growth in the number of records of the disease in Brazil in the last 16 years, being more prevalent among males aged 60-69 years, of white self-declared race/color, heterosexuals, with low schooling and coming from the southeastern region of the country. The high number of cases reveals the inclination of the epidemic of the disease to the elderly population, already described in the literature and highlights the need to develop actions that promote the health of the elderly, based on the empowerment of this population about HIV/aids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on fragments of a clinical case, this paper discusses the contribution of phylo and ontogenetic mnemonic traits to the formation of commitments that occur facing the terror of old age. At the same time, it presents the feasibility of clinical support as an alternative to the threat of abandonment that emerges from consciousness of finitude, and highlights the complexity and the importance of psychological work referring to aging as a fundamental condition to listening in transference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of runners is increasing, among them, especially, the older ones. But everything that starts comes to an end, including a runner's career. Confronting limitations often caused by aging, the older runner has to deal with this situation. This paper interprets the end of career of a runner as a learning moment facing a new challenge. Various factors that influence this process were recorded and the different ways of coping with the end of a runner's career were analyzed in the context of a racing group in Porto Alegre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on fragments of a clinical case, this paper discusses the contribution of phylo and ontogenetic mnemonic traits to the formation of commitments that occur facing the terror of old age. At the same time, it presents the feasibility of clinical support as an alternative to the threat of abandonment that emerges from consciousness of finitude, and highlights the complexity and the importance of psychological work referring to aging as a fundamental condition to listening in transference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aimed to analyze the speech rate of 16 healthy elderly, aging 50 to 65, from the Southeast of Brazil. Data was collected from semi spontaneous discourse of ALIB database. The Transcriber program was used to analyze speech rate (min/word). The results showed there is a speed variation between subjects from different areas. Elderly from Belo Horizonte demonstrated higher speed in the Southeast, whereas elderly from Rio de Janeiro showed the lowest rate in the same region. It was concluded that the decrease in speech rate in the literature may not be a result of aging process and it might be related with sociocultural aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Participation has been gaining prominence in discussions of ageing, partly a result of the widespread notion of active ageing. The emphasis has not, however, been followed up by parallel advances in conceptualization and practice, and the term has lost specificity and meaning, particularly in connection with civic and political engagement of older citizens. How can senior citizen participation be defined? What kind of activities does it encompass? And what is being done in Portugal in this area? These are the questions the paper addresses, with data from an exploratory study on local "seniors' participation" initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Participation has been gaining prominence in discussions of ageing, partly a result of the widespread notion of active ageing. The emphasis has not, however, been followed up by parallel advances in conceptualization and practice, and the term has lost specificity and meaning, particularly in connection with civic and political engagement of older citizens. How can senior citizen participation be defined? What kind of activities does it encompass? And what is being done in Portugal in this area? These are the questions the paper addresses, with data from an exploratory study on local "seniors' participation" initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past decades, many studies have pointed to the growing process of the ageing population. In Brazil, there is a prediction that by 2020 our country will have the sixth largest elderly population in the world. In several Brazilian cities, the number of inhabitants over 60 reaches significant levels. Given this phenomenon, several challenges exist for public policies, society and the university in the production of knowledge and new practices for intervention with this demand. Thus, this paper reports the experience of two group activities developed with the group "Ageing Processes and Subjectivity" at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Campus of Assis, coordinated by a faculty member and composed of twelve undergraduate apprentices in Psychology. The experience seeks to provide Psychology apprentices a training that will enable them to articulate the knowledge production with the construction of new strategies for professional work with the ageing population. Group activities are developed with the elderly, either institutionalized or not, and aim to promote intervention strategies that may produce the expansion of the subjectivity of the elderly, in order to combat the social isolation that many are submitted and also to promote (re)significations of the ageing process. To achieve this end, it is offered two different weekly activities, each one hour and a half long. One of them is the "Psychology Workshops with Senior nursing home residents", which includes the participation of about 30 individuals from two nursing homes in Assis (SP). In these workshops we develop sense and perception and activities of the expansion of mobility along with meetings that seek to foster memories and life stories of nursing home residents and activities that promote sociability among them, both within the campus and in the spaces of the city. The other group, "Encounters with the Third Age", is part of a project called University Opened to the Third Age (UnATI) of UNESP, Assis, which has about 50 participants aged over 60 years, mostly women. In this group, various topics related to ageing are discussed and its impact on the construction of subjectivity, such as gender, family, feelings and senses of the body and other processes. Our work with institutionalized old people, together with the academic purpose of creating knowledge while acting together with the external community, has led to the development of new tools of action in psychology beyond the traditional medical model. Moreover, these group experiences have also been seen as a strategic place in order to question the logic of invalidating the ageing person perceived on the social scene as well as among the elderly themselves. We observed that, when stimulated, they rediscover their capacity to reflect, criticize and ponder on various subjects, and may produce subjective processes more potentiated in their contact with others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the operations of libidinal disinvestment put into play by the death drive in the reality of the aging male. We point out the concept of the death instinct in psychoanalysis and present Green's theory on the work of the negative, emphasizing the dead mother complex as a possible form of symbolization of frustration and loss caused by aging. We also point the place of the word as the basic articulation of the subject with his own condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to describe the process of establishment and evaluation of Live More! - the retirement planning program of a Brazilian public university. A logic model based on inputs, outputs, results, assumptions and external factors was used. Thirteen employees were divided into two groups receiving 24 hours of informative and experiential intervention during eight weeks. The topics' selection was based on the predictors of successful aging. Content analysis was adopted to interpret the participants' answers in the evaluation interviews. Results demonstrated that the main goal of the program - to promote workers' well-being, health and quality of life - was achieved. Keywords: Pre-retirement, retirement, aging, intervention, evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For residents of nursing homes, the possibility of death occuring within the facility is high, and most if not all end of life care are provided there, so it is vital to apply the philosophy of palliative care. Objective: To understand the nature of the end-of-life care in nursing homes and factors that hinder or facilitate the implementation of palliative care in these settings. Methods: A systematic literature review on end of life care in nursing homes between 2002 and 2012 of the databases consulted. The research protocol that was built allowed us to select 19 papers that constituted the corpus of analysis. Results: Through a process of meta-aggregation, the results were aggregated based on similarity of meaning, in a total of 12 categories related to the nature of end of life care in nursing homes: identification of approach to death; holistic care, individualized and continuous care; advance planning; appropriate use of treatments; symptom control; teamwork; proper communication; no hasty transfers; good relationship with family; respect for personality and life story; including the experience of death; not dying alone. It also describes the factors that facilitate (continuous relationship with the resident, continuing relationship, a safe and “homely” environment in which death is experienced naturally) or hinder the end-of-life care, related to residents, professionals, with the care provided and the nursing home itself as an institution. Conclusions: Through the analysis and interpretation of results we understand that the nature of end-of-life care in nursing homes is complex and multifactorial related to residents, care team, family and the context in which care is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is part of a more extensive project I am currently working on entitled "Representation of the others: How the Media looks at diversity" which intends to investigate, through analysis of different media productions, contents related to various minority groups (ethnic, gender, age, culture etc.) and their articulation between identity construction and subjectivity. The concern on representation assumes that the discourses about aging reflect on the construction of self image, identity and possible hierarchical social relations. So, in this paper, the focus is on the representation of women aging in Brazilian media, especially on the TV series 'Cinquentinha' and its continuation 'Lara com Z'. How are women portrayed? Analyzing media discourses may reveal a little more about this universe and make evident the necessity of constructing different ways of representation in order to modify and disrupt hierarchies, stereotypes and prejudices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social and economic transformations of recent decades and their consequent changes in the lifestyles of contemporary society -- changes in eating habits, increasedsedentarianism and stress -- and longest life expectancy of the population contributed to the increased incidence of chronic diseases, which today are a serious health problem. Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases are the major cause of mortality worldwide. In Brazil, in recent decades, chronic non-communicable diseases have become major causes of premature death and disability. Creative focus should be directed to the care of the elderly, who are the ones who suffer the effects of their own weakness and demand more health services. The National Agency of Supplementary Health published a resolution that encourages the participation of beneficiaries in health insurance programs for active aging, with the possibility of discounts on fees. Thus, the elderly now receive cash benefits to comply with preventive health programs and early detection of diseases. This opinion paper aims to present issues relating not only to the recent initiative of the Agency, but rather to Uerj's Open University for Studies on the Elderly, which for 18 years has been approaching the theme of new health care models. This text expresses the institution's latest project, which is to develop a health care model integrating promotion and attention for the elderly's health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present the main theoretical and empirical foundations for the promotion of psychological development with older people. The orientation of developmental psychology to older people has arisen because of interest among psychologists in using developmental approaches of human behavior and development for understanding the plasticity of the aging mind and development, and the importance of relations between individuals and ecological settings as a framework to understand diversity in the course of human development in the second half of life. A developmental psychology perspective applied to older people development has arisen as well through the implementation of interventions designed and delivered both in individualized and community-based ways. The most important conceptual foundations and empirical work being done to define bases and features of developmental psychology applied to older people will be discussed as well as the implications of it for applications of developmental science aimed at improving human development of older people through the provision of programs and policies predicated on the use of a developmental psychology perspective for understanding and enhancing the lives of older people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a comparative study of social, political, economical, and health situation aged population of Brazil, Spain, and United States. A discussion was made about changing process age structure base don literature of the three countries. Data analysis confirmed improvements in ag people life conditions, and changing on social insertion and political and moral attitudes. Data indicat also that there are no similarities or differences among the countries which can be attributed to econom conditions, nor to cultural traditions. The duality expresses a transition in this segment, traditiona viewed in a negative way and, nowadays, also considered as economic and familiar support. T perspectives are that the aged people positive social role will be emphasized by naturalization of agi and by establishing de analytic references on aging itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]