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This paper reviews the major theoretical perspectives that support the initiatives of continuing education as potential sources of social interaction and well beingin old age. Based on the constructs of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) and Psychological Well-Being (BEP), were analyzed the possible causal relationships between the living and learning in old age on these indicators.

The aim of this study was to assess life satisfaction and perceived health, according to the number of self-reported diseases, of the students of UnATI EACHUSP. The study included 299 subjects, of both sexes, aged between 50 and 80 years-old. The presence of chronic diseases exerted negative influence on quality of life and perceived health of midle-aged/older subjects. In this population, the number of selfreported diseases showed positive association with age and negative association with life satisfaction.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the functional performance, according to the physical activity levels, of the students of UnATI EACH-USP. The study included 269 subjects, of both sexes, aged between 50 and 80 years-old. The most active group showed better functional performance in balance, mobility and lower limb strength tests compared with the sedentary group. On the other hand, perform physical activities in an irregular fashion was not associated to better functional performance in middleaged/older subjects.

The "Millennium Development Goals" (MDG) synthetize eight objectives assumed internationally to the improvement of the quality of life on this planet until 2015. Such expectations, however, do not take into consideration that there is a substantial contingent of vulnerable elderly. Even though the MDG do not address directly the elderly, a comprehensive reading, considering the emerging populational pattern, allows the inclusion of directives and actions geared to them, making urgent the integrated planning of public policies to attend the needs of those 60 years of age or older, not only today, but for the many decades to come.

In the present study it is intended to characterize the history of falls and to evaluate the fear to fall in aged institutionalized. The sample is composed for 113 institutionalized aged people, 32 men and 81 women with a average 82,96 ± 7,03 age of years. The data had been collected by means of a questionnaire and statistical analyzed (descriptive statistics, parametric tests - Test T and Anova - Test U-Mann Whitney, and Test of Kruskal-Wallis – and the Test of Tukey). The results point in the direction of that the women present a bigger number of falls (24.8%) and greater fear to fall (Med=55). The falls had occurred in its majority in the context of the room of the institutions. It was verified that people who had at least a fall experience present greater fear to fall comparatively (Med=55) with that they had not the same had no incident of fall in period of time (Med=77). Our results come to strengthen the hypothesis of the changeable sex to be able to be considered a factor of fall risk. Aged that they present a history of falls seems to be more vulnerable to develop the fear to fall.

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Much has been said about changes and transformations at different levels and areas of population who have contributed to the formation of a new society where demographic changes, scientific, technological, medical, economic, political, social and cultural have occurred constitute a new way of being of individuals in Mexico today. This overview of medical and scientific advances and technological advances allowed to age differently than in the past, which allows people to live longer and in better health. However, the social construction of old age has been associated with disease, decay and decrepitude, this situation creates a set of prejudices, stereotypes and discrimination that people acquire as they age. In this sense, we should ask whether does the social construction of old age older adults concerns today? Do age stereotypes characterize a true picture of aging? The purpose of this article is to discuss the stereotypes and prejudices that accompany old age and its various implications for both individual, social and cultural.

The paper analyzes the imagery of the elderly about life after death, believers in a sample of over 60 years, all believing Catholics, Methodists, Adventists and Pentecostals, who live in the capital of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The information was conducted through in-depth interviews and guided discussions on the topic. Research shows that the imaginary life in the beyond has to do with actions and practices, cultural contexts, historical economic, religious customs that the company and / or individuals have accumulated in their daily lives. The central question is present in all the work is: What role is playing these imaginary in the earthly life? How to give meaning and how human life transform?

Death can be interpreted as a social and historical product. In the context of spirituality it is constructed as a transcendence of life and becomes a passage to the other side, establishing a continuity of life in the world unseen. Books-called spiritualists and / or spiritualists in Portuguese, within the ruling religious pluralism in Brazil, tell the epic spirits whose spiritual advancement requires numerous reincarnations, aiming to continuous changes to its improvement. In this case, Death is nothing but a passage in the life of the spirit that wins steps and gradually erase the finitude, from "spirit embodied" a "disembodied".

The purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship of man with death and its deployment in subjectivity and in aging. We did a brief history about the vision of death over time and we did an analysis on the process of aging and dying according to the logic of biopolitical management. With the death and old age increasingly distant from the horizons of life, subjectivity has been weakened. Thus, incorporating these aspects as there is part of one of the challenges both to the thought as to build itself.

This article analyzes and discusses the experience of time in old age through the relations of the elderly with photography. We did photography workshops with a group of elders exploring with them the sense of the photographic act death, as an act of freezing and stopping time and also the sense of exploring the future to create, through the photographic act, an image that can symbolize moving on in life.

The old age acceptance leads to the recognition of their own limitations and of their finitude, which has no definite beginning but has an ending clearly established: the death. In today's society, the order is silence when the focus is the death and also the old age, because this is regarded as its harbinger. Thus, it is important that health professionals in the care of the elderly should not remain silent on the question of death. This issue should be addressed naturally, because as people become aware of their finitude, they understand life in its complexity and may revise their values.

This paper proposes to address the stages of aging and death in the process of individuation starting from the symbolic amplification of images of these life stages in the light of Analytical Psychology. In order to relate these images to the stages of human development, especially to the phases of late maturity and life cycle termination, we carried out an imagistic and bibliographic study of aging and death based on the theoretical framework of Analytical Psychology and post-Jungian authors. Therefore, we performed a symbolic amplification of images coming from visual arts, literature, religion and mythology. The results of this study indicate that the images connected with death are related to the process of individuation, signaling the need for this issue - which is a taboo in contemporary society – to be experienced in a creative and meaningful way.

Widowhood is a phenomenon that affects mainly elderly women, one explanation for this fact is the greater longevity compared to the males, the loss causes feelings of grief and sadness and several transitions in people's lives, forces them facing transition of identity, loss of status and socioeconomic independence. Therefore, it is essential to understand the grieving process and coping strategies for mourning elaboration.

Widowhood is one of the hardest emotional challenges in the life course. This research investigated coping strategies used by a group of 30 widowed elders. The results indicated that widows and widowers tend to employ more frequently actionbased coping and religious practice.

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In this article the hypothesis that geriatric institutions are totalizing centers is validated, in other words, they have all the qualities which Erving Goffman once described for this kind of centers: they keep their interns life, and, at the same time, they expel them from society. Everyday life has been divided in several stages: entry, adaptation or integration, the process of mortification, daily life, social control, social relationships, secondary strategies of adaptation, the acculturation or the own subculture, the institutionalization and the totalisation. These section are displayed, in a second part of the article, in order to make possible the comparison and validation, again, of the hypothesis of the totalisation with standard operating procedures. For this, some recent documents (2012-2013) are shown in order to give the clues to discover how to avoid the degradation of life in these centers. Summarizing, this article gives some alternatives and advices to "humanize" and prioritize individuals, interns and workers, who not only aren't disappearing but increasing, are given.

The study reflected on the issues of work, laziness, leisure and free time from the point of view of the elderly. It was realized conceived from the data of a survey conducted by Consulting Idea Brazil, to Instituto Trabalho e Vida, in 2010. It was noticed that the desire to retire is still present in the life of Brazilian workers, but the apparent longevity, requires from the individuals, society and government agencies, positioning on the values of different ways of living in labor activity.

Parkinson’s disease patients suffering sensorimotor deficits and emotional. The aim of this study is to identify the benefits in quality of life of seniors who participate in various workshops and very appropriate, offered by Group Lotus - Parkinson Association of Santos, trying to overcome the problems resulting from the disease. The approach adopted here is exploratory and descriptive, in a cross-sectional study drawn from the application of a questionnaire, the PDQ-39, in which the elderly were interviewed and their responses interpreted, following the line qualitative research by its affinity with the referential theoretical training of the authors. As a result, it was found that the individuals involved in the study showed an improvement from the perception expressed by them about their current quality of life as the result of their engagement in the activities of Group Lotus, obtaining thus autoparticipation in their care with health, finally, from the considerations made here about the actions undertaken by group Lotus, contribute to the actions of professionals working in the area, as well as guide the participation of patients in their health-seeking process.

The main research question on the place of the older people in the family and in society instigated analysis of children's storybooks, in order to discuss how contents of children's literature address the reality of aging in view of to implement innovative pedagogical projects in schools under an interdisciplinary perspective in area of Social Gerontology, Education and Linguistics. The methodology focused on content analysis of ten children's books, considering title / author, cape and synopsis; in order to verify how these aspects to be crucial to handling and reading of books for adults and children, whether written under the light of a realistic and current, can direct a proper reading of the aging process. The interviews next to the Coordinator of “Escola Viva”, located in the city of São Paulo, complemented the research making feasible the analysis of collected and the composition of following results: (i) characterization of the discourse contained in children's storybooks about aging, their implications and consequences, also identifying what they cease to say, and how can be more productive dialogue between students and teachers, considering the importance of relationship child-elderly; (ii) identification of potential problem expressed in the texts analyzed concerning values as respect, dignity, and appreciation of the other, in everyday relationships intergenerational family and society; (iii) contribution to rethink conception education on aging and the set of theories that allow composing a new ideology in favor an affectionate and supportive human relationship in the family, in society, which may be incremented by practices educational that respond to these challenges.