Kairós Gerontologia (Jun 2013)

The poetry sung, with the elderly people of the home for the aged in the possible re-construction of imaginary

  • Alberlei Schlögl,
  • Altair Macedo Lahud Loureiro,
  • Marcos Ferreira Santos,
  • Carmen Jansen de Cárdenas,
  • Armando José China Bezerra

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 3
pp. 141 – 167

Abstract

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During the years between 2007 and 2009, was conducted one research namely: Imaginary, elderly smokers of the home for the aged and organization of home for the aged: organizational anthro-politics – IATO² – in one Institution of the longer existence for the aged (ILPI), in the Federal District. For that purpose, the elderly participated with us a music workshop, a choir, where, we could observe how the music, the poetry sung influenced beneficially on the imaginary of the elderly persons.

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