Abstract
Abstract Objective: Evaluate the relevance and efficiency of socio-educational video debate technology as a strategy to promote active aging. Methodology: Convergent care research was conducted with 16 elderly users of a basic health unit in Belém, to implement the technology by selecting YouTube videos, which were analyzed and discussed, seeking to coordinate the video plot of each video with determining factors of active aging, principles of continuing education, and life experience of the elderly participants. Results: The following categories emerged from debates: "Learning how to know oneself," "Learning how to do things differently," "Learning how to live with others," and "Learning to how to be a better person." The video debate allowed behavioral changes in nutrition and relationship, as evaluated using the lifestyle scale, before and after the video debate. Conclusion: Video debate technology proved to be efficient and relevant as it allowed the elderly to reflect in groups by sharing ideas, learning together and building new strategies for active aging.
Highlights
Aging is a natural, dynamic and progressive process in which morphological, functional, biochemical and psychological changes can reduce one's ability to adapt to the environment, increasing vulnerability to the conditions of chronicity, which are very common in old age.[1]In Brazil, the elderly corresponded to 10.6% of the total population in 2010, which has doubled in the last 50 years
The elderly population is more concentrated in the Southeast region in Brazil (12.7% of the total population), while the North region has the lowest number of elderly (7.1%), corresponding to 1,081,469 elderly people aged 60 and over in the North region, with the highest concentration in Pará (535,135 elderly people), where they are distributed in all municipalities, in peripheral districts of large cities, rural areas, river islands and waterside areas.[2,3]
Of the 16 elderly participants, 13 were female and 3 were male, aged 60 to 89 years; 12 of them were single and four were married; all participants lived in the area near the basic health units (BHU), with poor sanitation and housing conditions
Summary
Dynamic and progressive process in which morphological, functional, biochemical and psychological changes can reduce one's ability to adapt to the environment, increasing vulnerability to the conditions of chronicity, which are very common in old age.[1]In Brazil, the elderly corresponded to 10.6% of the total population in 2010, which has doubled in the last 50 years. The elderly population is more concentrated in the Southeast region in Brazil (12.7% of the total population), while the North region has the lowest number of elderly (7.1%), corresponding to 1,081,469 elderly people aged 60 and over in the North region, with the highest concentration in Pará (535,135 elderly people), where they are distributed in all municipalities, in peripheral districts of large cities, rural areas, river islands and waterside areas.[2,3]. Considering the above, the Brazilian population is reaching old age, a fact that has an impact on the profile of population morbidity and mortality as these demographic and epidemiological changes place the conditions of chronicity in perspective. The increase in the incidence of chronic diseases requires adjustments in social policies, those to meet the growing demands in the areas of health care, welfare and social care.[4]
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