Qualidade de vida dos idosos: ações dos grupos de maioridade ativa do município de Santana do Livramento/RS

Abstract

With the emerging of the concern with the quality of life, the group of elderly people, that before it suffered due to the social removal, the knowledge lack, the lack of socialization and coexistence with the others generations, now started to have a bigger visibility front the society. Due to the advances of the medicine it had an increase of the life expectancy, and therefore, an increasing concern with the quality of life of these. With the lack of socialization, and the debates of how to use the free time in a productive way the groups of active maturity had appeared, and with them the necessity of an analysis of its action. The objective of this study was to analyze the actions of the groups of Active Majority for the Quality of Life of its participants, in the City of Santana of the Livramento/RS. Interviews were conducted with 30 women and 5 men, predominating the age group between 60 and 80 years, divided in two groups of active majority: Digital inclusion for the Third Age - UNIPAMPA and Health of the Aged ones - Municipal Secretary of Social Assistance. The data had been collected through interview and systematic analysis. This Interview had semistructuralized script, on the basis of the established specific objectives. The data had been analyzed through the content of the interviews, transformed and separate in preestablished categories. An election of the best interviews was performed. Among the results, it was observed: the selected sample of 35 participants, in reply to the general objective of the study, they all reported an improvement in the quality of their lives after the participation in the actions, in both the searched groups. The present study accomplished its objectives. It is concluded that the groups of active majority have the role of prepare the elderly for a healthful aging, stimulating to an active life in the society, through the concretion of its rights and of the development of diverse actions, that provide a good quality of life