Velhice e institucionalização: quem se prepara para vivê-las?

Abstract

This research was to approach issues relating to the elderly, specifically those residing in institutional spaces. Thus, the objective was to evidence what has been produced in Brazilian literature about the institutionalization and old age, the period 2010 to 2015. This study is characterized as a literature review, which is in search of information about certain topic in order to systematize the production of knowledge on a research problem. He identified himself, in publications, there is concern of scholars for various aspects involving the Elder interface and long-term care facility. The results presented indicate the complexity of understanding of aging by elderly or people close to this condition. The wear losses and declines are inevitable and trigger adaptive challenges for the elderly, particularly when institutionalized in long-stay institutions for the elderly (LTCF), because away from the usual routines feels lost in time and space. However, this phenomenon can also happen in your home with the family. The ILPS still carry a negative image, crystallized in welfare figure, consequently, its residents can internalize this image. However, there is a gradual movement, contrary to the image. Thus, the imagination of an elderly institutionalized in ILPS must reach meanings that are articulated in a concrete and positive way, demystifying the unprotected caricature.