Experiences of aging on the beach environment

Authors

  • Otávio Tavares Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.
  • Vivian Silveira Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2014v17i3p271-284

Keywords:

Beach, Elderly people, Identity.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the bodily practices of the elderly in the beach environment as contemporary experience of aging through ethnographic research. The results indicate that the image of the elderly at the beach reaches a multifaceted state because it has not radically different bodily practices adopted by young people, or configured as fully equivalent to those of old, thus bringing new focus on the elderly in the contemporary era.

 

Author Biographies

Otávio Tavares, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Professor Associado II do Departamento de Ginástica da UFES. Coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

 

Vivian Silveira, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Licenciada em Educação Física pelo Centro de Educação Física e Desportos da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Treinadora de Rugby em Deerfield Beach, Flórida, EUA.

 

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Published

2014-09-30

How to Cite

Tavares, O., & Silveira, V. (2014). Experiences of aging on the beach environment. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 17(3), 271–284. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2014v17i3p271-284

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 3 (2014)

Section

Papers

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