Voices and Visions of Institutionalised Old Age

The aging population has been demanding a more careful look at the elderly, especially the institutionalized, given that, in addition to the changes that aging produces, the elderly still have to live with the stigma of old imposed by the social structure in which we live and by living in the asylum. The book allows reflections on the theme from the narrative and photographs of elderly people from an asylum institution. The poetic narrative sometimes used to narrate the images, sometimes translating the voice of the elderly, provided the weaving of the text of the encounter, between voices and visions of institutionalized old age that seeks to unsettle our identification, approximation, analysis and interpretation of the elements that constitute this universe, while it puts us in the place of the other.

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Née à l'intérieur du Ceará, Brésil. Infirmière à la Faculdade Santa Maria (FSM), Cajazeiras-PB. A suivi le cours de médecine à la FSM. Travaille sur des lignes de recherche dans les domaines de la santé des femmes, de la santé des personnes âgées, de la formation médicale et de la diversité des genres. Artiste et passionnée de photographie et de littérature.