Rethinking a project searching elderly people’s autonomy: a history of experience

The elderly people’s autonomy project has been achieved in UNIVALI with goal to promote a favorable environment to the development of the participants, increasing the elderly people’s autonomy. The union of interests concerning to health, law, citzenship, communication, culture and present, joined t...

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Main Authors: Edinéia Sestrem, Hebe C. Bastos Regis, Isabela Maria Sell, Lygia Paim
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual Paulista, Pró-Reitoria de Extensão Universitária 1969-12-01
Series:Revista Ciência em Extensão
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Online Access:http://ojs.unesp.br/index.php/revista_proex/article/view/42
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Summary:The elderly people’s autonomy project has been achieved in UNIVALI with goal to promote a favorable environment to the development of the participants, increasing the elderly people’s autonomy. The union of interests concerning to health, law, citzenship, communication, culture and present, joined to elderly people incentives in order to take part that context, became it viable to live with this autonomy of a constructive way. Leading to this end, there was the necessary widening of the project’s elements sensitivity as well the grade of elderly people’s confidence themselves in order to characterize the achievement and the evolution of autonomy, becoming them possible and appropriate to the group. Key words: Aging, autonomy, group, health.
ISSN:1679-4605