A biblioterapia como ponto de partida para o desabrochar de si: relato de experiência dos idosos do AMEM, João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

It presents the report of experiences and experiences, the result of learning from the Extension project: Bibliotherapy for the elderly: reading is learning to live, it depends on you, from the Library Science Course at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), developed with the elderly from AMÉM – long-stay institution for the elderly (ILPI) - in João Pessoa, Paraíba. It has the general objective: to report the experiences acquired during the development of bibliotherapy actions programs for the elderly with the purpose of giving meaning to their lives, . The project proposal was based on readings, storytelling, doll and puppet theater, storytelling and other activities learned during the undergraduate course in Librarianship. Cultural action activities, developed with the aim of working on the self-confidence, spontaneity and disinhibition of the participants. The report evidences relevant situations of coexistence between the elderly (as) of a humanistic character of the students and teachers involved in the project, which materialized as a teaching and learning process for the academic training of the students involved. It is a clipping originated from the extension actions of the project in question, with the purpose of highlighting the importance of the practice of bibliotherapy in the context of old age. Considered a successful experience, the project highlighted the importance of extension projects in librarianship, with a view to strengthening the humanistic image of the profession, reinforcing the librarian's social role. It concludes that the project highlighted the humanized and democratic nature of extensionist actions aimed at bibliotherapy. And, still, that the reality of the elderly in Brazil, being unfair and devoid of any foundation, causes inequalities, never seen before. It points to the important role of reading, as an entertainment activity for the elderly, as it mitigates and humanizes the process of social isolation.