The elderly and chronic degenerative diseases: why me, and why now?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2019v22i4p379-393Keywords:
Elderly, Causality, Chronic Disease.Abstract
With the advancement of modernity, health professions focus their studies on isolated diseases, leaving the experience of the diseased to the side. The aim of this study was to learn how a group of elderly people explain the causality of the chronic diseases that affect them. This is a qualitative study conducted with 54 elders, health insurance users, residents of the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The interviewed group points to the interaction of various causal models, which leads to the thought of a common cultural construction, an explanatory model about the causality of the chronic diseases that affect them.