Abstract
ABSTRACT Purpose: this study aimed to analyze significant effects of language activities on elderly people´s autonomy and social participation. Methods: it is an intervention research report, based on a dialogical discourse perspective, developed in two stages. In the first, a speech-language intervention involving written and oral practices about life stories was carried out with six elderly participants. In the second, a semi-structured interview was applied with these participants based on questions that addressed the aims of the study. Results: the participants were all females, aged between 61 and 90 years old. Their statements indicated that, through dialogical practices, they were able to increase their social participation, autonomy and self-esteem; they were also able to deconstruct stigmatizing social standards imposed to elderly people. Final Considerations: dialogical practices among the elderly can help promote active aging and overcome negative conceptions about elderly people, as proposed by the World Health Organization and the National Health Care Policy for the Elderly, which confirm that elderly people contribute to social development.
Highlights
Discussions on aging and old age have been highlighted, indicating that Brazilian elderly population have faced discriminating and prejudiced situations, in a larger social scope, and within their own families[1]
The second and third axes evidence the discursive productions related to the dialogical activities on autonomy and social participation of the studied subjects
The first axis features the data of people who participated in the study, describing aspects related to gender, age, marital status, monthly income, schooling, as shown subsequently
Summary
Discussions on aging and old age have been highlighted, indicating that Brazilian elderly population have faced discriminating and prejudiced situations, in a larger social scope, and within their own families[1] Such situations, typical from a marginalizing and oppressive socioeconomic context, unfold that part of the current capital-based society, focused on the production and consumption, considers elder people as unproductive and incapable of contributing to the community that they live in[1]. Among the factors justifying aged people’s removal from social and work settings are their physical changes They occur naturally along the time, causing visual and hearing impairments, vocal changes, added by esthetic alterations, among others, considered demeaning in the Western culture, which takes productive, consuming, young people as the model[3]
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