Educative actions in health promotion for aging: the experience of UNATI/UERJ elderly assistance nucleus

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200731.3.15

Authors

  • Mônica de Assis Doutora em Saúde Pública. Inca/MS e UnATI/UERJ
  • Liliane Carvalho Pacheco Especialista em Envelhecimento e Saúde do Idoso. Núcleo de Atenção ao Idoso – UnATI/UERJ
  • Maria Fátima Garcia de Menezes Mestre em Educação.Instituto de Nutrição/UERJ.
  • Maria Helena de Jesus Bernardo Mestre em Serviço Social.Núcleo de Atenção ao Idoso – Universidade Aberta da Terceira Idade da UERJ.
  • Claudia Helena Vigné Alvarez de Steenhagen Especialista em Audiologia e Gerontologia. Núcleo de Atenção ao Idoso – Universidade Aberta da Terceira Idade da UERJ.
  • Elda Lima Tavares Mestre em Saúde Pública.Instituto de Nutrição/UERJ.
  • Débora Martins dos Santos Mestre em Saúde Coletiva.Instituto de Nutrição/UERJ

Keywords:

Ageing – health Promotion. Health Education – elderly. Communitarian Education.

Abstract

This paper presents the experience of the Program of Educative Actions in Health Promotion for Aging, maintained by the Elderly Assistance
Nucleus, an outpatient clinic of UERJ’s (Rio de Janeiro State University) Third Age Open University. It is an interdisciplinary program that includes several
educational 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 of
life, and sees education as a dialogue, interchange of experiences, partnership, respect to others, reflection, the questioning of reality and the search for
possible alternatives and choices. Elderly needs are considered in the educational process, boosting their capacity to learn, create, decide, respecting the
particularities 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 practicaltheoretical
articulation for health promotion. On a teaching level, the work stimulates a new sensibility on the professional culture, capable of including
others and their knowledge, considering the social, economic and cultural conditions and their relationships with health. On a service level, the program
represents a “door opening” to participation, bringing together professionals and the population, strengthening the vow to quality assistance, centered
on human bonding, on responsibility and on sharing the challenges to quality of life and health on aging.

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Published

2007-07-01

How to Cite

de Assis, M., Carvalho Pacheco, L. ., Garcia de Menezes, M. F., de Jesus Bernardo, M. H. ., Vigné Alvarez de Steenhagen, C. H., Lima Tavares, E., & Martins dos Santos, D. . (2007). Educative actions in health promotion for aging: the experience of UNATI/UERJ elderly assistance nucleus: DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200731.3.15. O Mundo Da Saúde, 31(3), 438–447. Retrieved from https://revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br/mundodasaude/article/view/887