O morar dos idosos nas instituições de longa permanência: o caso dos casais residentes na Instituição Nosso Lar em Santo André/SP

Abstract

The expressive growth of the senior population is a world phenomenon. Their reflexes had beginning in Brazil starting from the second half of the century XX and it was resulted of the reduction in the fertility/mortality taxes, of the urbanization and of the increase of the life expectancy of the people. In the same way as there is the increase of the number of senior people, there is also a crescent disputes for new manners of living. Such fact lifts inherent questions of social stamp when living of the seniors in the Institutions of Long Permanence (ILPI), fear of this research, that he/she had as objective lifts the residents' of the Instituição Assistencial Nosso Lar, in Santo André-SP and to know the moments for two lived by the couples there residents, contributing to the implementation of public politics of home for senior. For so much he/she was employee the method of qualitative approach, using the interview semi-structured to pick four resident seniors' depositions in the researched Institution. We observed that the relationships to two in the Institution are permeated of prejudices so much on the part of the administration, that is not prepared to welcome seniors' couples, as on the part of the other interns, that you/they act with strangeness due to the rare moments of affectivity of the couples. It was also noticed a retraction on the part of the subjects interviewees in relation to the questions about the sexuality, once they became shy when verbalizing their moments of intimacy. We noticed that this is a theme that it still lacks studies more deepened and of operationalization of Public Politics of house for seniors so that these subjects have his/her respected citizenship when they choose an ILPI as home and place to live to two