Educative actions in health promotion for aging: the experience of UNATI/UERJ elderly assistance nucleus: DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200731.3.15
This paper presents the experience of the Program of Educative Actions in Health Promotion for Aging, maintained by the Elderly AssistanceNucleus, an outpatient clinic of UERJ’s (Rio de Janeiro State University) Third Age Open University. It is an interdisciplinary program that includes severaleduca...
| Autores: | , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2007 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Centro Universitário São Camilo |
| Repositorio: | O Mundo da Saúde (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs3.revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br:article/887 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br/mundodasaude/article/view/887 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Envelhecimento - promoção da Saúde. Educação em Saúde – idosos. Educação Popular em Saúde. Ageing – health Promotion. Health Education – elderly. Communitarian Education. |
| Sumario: | This paper presents the experience of the Program of Educative Actions in Health Promotion for Aging, maintained by the Elderly AssistanceNucleus, an outpatient clinic of UERJ’s (Rio de Janeiro State University) Third Age Open University. It is an interdisciplinary program that includes severaleducational activities, open to the elderly and users in general. Its activities include waiting room groups, closed groups (Meetings with Health), open groups(Health “Wheel”) and the production of educational material, such as folders and boards. The work is based on a view of health integrated to quality oflife, and sees education as a dialogue, interchange of experiences, partnership, respect to others, reflection, the questioning of reality and the search forpossible alternatives and choices. Elderly needs are considered in the educational process, boosting their capacity to learn, create, decide, respecting theparticularities of the aging process. The experience honors and brings to discussion the complexity and richness of the educational dimension of health,consolidating itself as a strategic field for professional training and development of a model of assistance based on comprehensive care and practicaltheoreticalarticulation for health promotion. On a teaching level, the work stimulates a new sensibility on the professional culture, capable of includingothers and their knowledge, considering the social, economic and cultural conditions and their relationships with health. On a service level, the programrepresents a “door opening” to participation, bringing together professionals and the population, strengthening the vow to quality assistance, centeredon human bonding, on responsibility and on sharing the challenges to quality of life and health on aging. |
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