Acesso e aceitação da pessoa idosa em centros especializados: uma análise da integração da pessoa idosa em dois centros em Maputo

Abstract

In the present study, I analyze the integration process of the elderly in the Support Center for Old age of Lhanguene and Lar Nossa Senhora dos Desamparados, in the city of Maputo. Gives In the analyzed literature, I identified two approaches, one that argues that the integration of the elderly person in old age support centers results from the lack of family care and vulnerability. The other approach advocates the integration of the elderly as an autonomous person to choose where and with whom to live and share their experiences with people of the same age group in search of new friendships. The analyzed literature allows us to understand that the elderly person depends on family care and that their integration in the old age support centers depends on the decision of their family members or on their decision to integrate themselves in the support centers, because they believe that in the support centers to old age you will find people with whom you can share your experiences more freely. However, the literature loses sight of other integration strategies that can be used. In view of the limitations that the literature presents, I conducted an ethnographic research with a group of elderly people residing at the Center for Support to Old Age (CAV) in Lhanguene and at Lar Nossa Senhora dos Desamparados in the city of Maputo. The results of this research allow us to understand that, according to the rules in force in the institutions visited, they only receive elderly people in a situation of vulnerability and without family care. Some elderly people aware of this information, who arrived at the center, allege mistreatment by their families, abandonment and lack of survival conditions, even when this information is false. Others, however, are accepted because they fit the requirements demanded by the center for their integration. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)