Biblioterapia para idosos: conexões entre fatos e experiências passadas

Abstract

Research carried out in the home of Providence Carneiro da Cunha, in João Pessoa-PB-Brazil, an institution that houses seniors without distinguishing criteria, be it economic, social order, race or religious creed. Emphasizes the relevance of Bibliotherapy for seniors, with respect to life expectancy and social isolation of elderly people, taking in reading one of the paths to a full and dignified old age, those who were absent from the home, without family and friends seek to strip his ideals, believing in the certainty that they can live happier. Points out that the problem of research is guided by the following questions. The Bibliotherapy as social practice (re) means the life of the elderly living in the home of Providence Carneiro da Cunha, where read makes a difference? How bibliotherapists s developed activities focus on the approaches of Bibliotherapy, in order to stimulate the pleasure of living in the elderly? Build the theoretical Foundation partner historically, with information related to the Bibliotherapy and old age. Subsidizes the methodological path with the exploratory, descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, supported the principles of life and history of reading. Used as data collection technique to participant observation and the structured interview. Points out that the search universe is made up of 52 elderly people, of which ten became subject of research. Concludes that the bibliotherapists activities carried out in the Home of Providence, are directly related to the proposed inclusion of the elderly participants of resocialization and social projects developed in the institution, since the information mediated by reading a know that leads to independence, resilience and empowerment. We see, through the dialogue we have had with the subjects of the survey, the survey of facts and experiences of each, how much life is valuable, however, ephemeral and, for that reason should be used intensively, on pain of old age faced with the feeling of regret.