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Psychodrama with Older Adults

2022; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-981-19-1832-2_9

2662-5504

Algaides de Marco Rodrigues, Darlise Rodrigues dos Passos Gomes,

Arts and Performance Studies

In countries that experience a rapid and intense population aging process, such as Brazil, public policies and specific protection and care actions for this group need to be promoted to allow a healthy aging process for everyone. This work presents the systematization of activities developed with groups of older adults in the university context, highlighting how the group experience contributes to the reeducation of aging and how it collaborates in the organization of the older people as an emancipatory conception/practice. The phenomenological existential method was used as a reference to the work of Jacob Levy Moreno, post-Morenian author Paulo Freire and researchers of aging. The older people stressed that they found in the groups the space for participation necessary to redesign their lives, another view of aging, and their partners’ existential confirmation. The moments considered most significant were those in which they were the protagonists of an action. The study highlights the groups as a privileged space for rescuing the health of the older people and exercising their citizenship.