Abstract
Abstract The concern with body care, image, and aesthetics in the context of ideals of beauty is a subject of great interest to people. A descriptive exploratory study with a qualitative approach was carried out with a group of 60-year-old women, aiming to discover their perception of physical beauty and the meaning addressed to it in old age. The focus group method was used in data collection and analysis. The results indicated that 60-year-old women recognize beauty based on social standards, even if they are from different sociocultural realities. They establish a judgment of taste based on what they perceive as pleasant to see, feel, and observe. The aesthetic experience of an individual reveals a duality of images that are appreciated and depreciated, while beauty in old age means caring for oneself and one's relationships. The results offer evidence for health professionals in the structuring of therapeutic plans and educational actions focused on the aging process, especially in a female context.
Highlights
For health professionals, working with such issues is both challenging and necessary, as thisFrom the beginnings of civilization physical beauty has been a goal sought by human beings, especially women
Today women are confronted with images that physical beauty, the guiding question of the present glorify youth and the exaltation of thinness1,2. study was: "what meaning do they attribute to Patterns that define beauty vary between physical beauty in old age?”
Concepts of beauty are study was to describe the meaning of physical beauty aligned with how society behaves in relation to in old age in order to discover the understanding aesthetic standards[4,5,6]
Summary
For health professionals, working with such issues is both challenging and necessary, as thisFrom the beginnings of civilization physical beauty has been a goal sought by human beings, especially women. Study was: "what meaning do they attribute to Patterns that define beauty vary between physical beauty in old age?”. The search for gerontology consider their answers, as intervention beauty persists, transcending generations, and is and health promotion measures can be anchored in greatly influenced by the aesthetic standards in studies of this nature. Concepts of beauty are study was to describe the meaning of physical beauty aligned with how society behaves in relation to in old age in order to discover the understanding aesthetic standards[4,5,6]. Adopting Jiminez’s7 reading that older women have about such beauty, as well of aesthetics from a Kantian perspective, it can be as analyzing and describing the meanings that they said that society judges beauty through an impure attribute to physical beauty in old age
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