The old age on the cinema screens: A look at the change of elderly occupational roles

Authors

  • Carla da Silva Santana Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo.
  • Carolina Guimarães Belchior Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2013v16i1p93-116

Keywords:

Cinema, Ageing, Ocupacional Role.

Abstract

Due to the increase in film production about aging this study sought to identify changes in the occupational roles of the elderly and how they were represented in the movies. This is a documental study, qualitative, which used films having a elderly people as protagonist. These were classified by gender and applied the Occupational Roles list. Of the 23 films analyzed, identified the papers lost, maintained and incorporated into old age, as well as conflicts in the face of change and/or the lack of plans for their lives.

 

Author Biographies

Carla da Silva Santana, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo.

Professora Doutora, Docente do Curso de Terapia Ocupacional da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo. Pós-Doutoranda do Oxford Institute of Population Ageing da Universidade de Oxford, UK.

 


Carolina Guimarães Belchior, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo

Terapeuta Ocupacional formada pelo Curso de Terapia Ocupacional da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo.

 

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Published

2013-03-30

How to Cite

Santana, C. da S., & Belchior, C. G. (2013). The old age on the cinema screens: A look at the change of elderly occupational roles. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 16(1), 93–116. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2013v16i1p93-116

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Papers

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