Marco female aging, Menopause: her experience in a literature review

Abstract

Stages or periods mark the lives of women, with concrete and objectives milestones, which indicate the different passages of his life, one of those phases menopause, which is when the woman, aged 40 to 60 years (or middle-aged), has cessing of reproductive capacity - very relative and particular repercussions, but significant in its subjective effects, and that unfold, positively or negatively, to old age. This study aims to know the production related to the perception of women's knowledge about menopause, which impacts that are related, how these can be tackled and, from there, reinterpreted. It is a descriptive, exploratory study with a qualitative approach, the literature review type, accompanied by some reflective unfolding, and realized from certain inclusion criteria: studies that specifically address the proposed theme; in Portuguese; in the form of articles available in its entirety on the selected databases; restricted the publication period of the last fourteen years (2000-2014). As a result, found 21 articles related to search and undertaken, precisely because only eight meet the cast of criteria proposed here, is that we sought unfold a little more reflections; It emphasizes that it is important, above all, that women have access to scientific health information so they can understand the aging process, changes of menopause, and continue preparing for its entry into Old Age.