The plastic expression and the erudite music as resources of the sociocultural animation to institutionalized elders
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2016v19i4p173-203Keywords:
Institutionalized Elderly, Animation, Artistic Expression.Abstract
The article aims to present the results of an exploratory-descriptive study on the importance of artistic expression and classical music, practices legitimized in this study as 'sociocultural encouragement' to the elderly, diagnosed by their caregivers, as presenting chronic-degenerative diseases, or Psychiatric disorders. The two artistic manifestations function as an exponent of freedom and the reunion of an elderly person with their own emotions, and with those of another elderly person. The qualitative method was applied, complemented by participant observation, and it was verified that the two expressions of art, by generating potentializing dynamics to the resignification of the ego of the elderly, are a way of combating the routines of institutionalized old age.
Keywords: Institutionalized Elderly; Animation; Artistic Expression.