O estado da arte do conceito “envelhecimento saudável” em vários níveis de significação

Abstract

The significance of healthy aging is replaced utmost importance in our society, as aging successfully depends on the delicate balance between the limitations and potential of each individual. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the state of the art concept of "healthy aging" in several levels of meaning. In a first phase were carried out surveys and bibliographic searches via on-line in databases LILACS, MEDLINE and SCIELO, soon after questionnaires were sent via e-mail to the researchers in the field of aging with questions and theories concerning the concept of healthy aging, and finally were held interviews with the elderly for the purpose of verifying the concept and the factors that influence healthy aging. Through analysis of the various levels of meaning (benchmarks, researchers and the elderly) realizes, for all that, each in its way, everyone has an idea and the concept of what is necessary to have a healthy aging. Finally, it is expected that this study will contribute so that people can get an idea of how the conceptualizations on healthy aging and the dimensions that influence.