A construção do eu dos idosos no lar Nossa Senhora dos Desamparados na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

We develop this work with the aim of understanding the construction of the “self” on the part of elderly patients in the reception centers, for people of the old age. The central idea was to problematize this center as a total social instituition, so, we made our home field work of our lady of the helpless (Nossa Senhora dos Desamparados) Where we interviewed a total of seven elders people and four staff agents. Our argument was, based in the elders people where the hospital didn`t limite to reproduce the norms and values imposed by the centres, they develop strategies of self-construction and continuity of identity is transported from outside word. We used the theory of instituition which consider the reception centers as the institutions where people are hospitalized passing by self process of mortification leading to disruption of which have experienced in their outside word. The value of the constructive dimension of our interviewers we are adopted an entirely qualitive approach that led to explore the symbolic exchange taking place in what was our field of honor study. According to the data revealed that elderly host of the senior centers were vulnerable and anable seeking to impose a set of standards and value to be internalized by the hospitalized elderly the receptions center offer the great contact with outside environment building spaces where they can interact themselves on the other hand the elders reproduce the internal discourse seeking to conserve what bring whith them. To sum up we infer that the elderly care center differs from other social institutions because the system of imposing norms and values are not absolute reserving for elderly spaces for self- construction.