Um estudo sobre a vida de idosos asilados com cegueira adquirida

Abstract

This work was developed with the objective main of knowing the seniors refugees' life better in the Asilo Amparo Providencia Lar das Vovozinhas, with acquired blindness, your daily autonomy and the strategies of to face of the same front the acquisition of such deficiency. The research is ruled in these two points by the need of including such public in projects developed in this institution, of the which are not part, a lot of times for lack of knowledge of the monitors as these seniors blind women possibilities. The subject of the research were five internal seniors above in the institution referred As form of collection of data interviews they were accomplished, that can be characterized as of oral history, where she tried to meet information of the collaborators' life through a route with applied open subjects the same ones and, other route with applied open subjects to people that now do part of the middle in that the collaborators are inserted, as form of obtaining information on the autonomy of each senior one that is part of the study and after, qualitative analysis was accomplished. They were observed for the study the consequences of the internment and of the acquisition of the blindness, as well as an abbreviation report on the report of the institution and your current structure.