The active ageing as life experience: narratives of elderly people

Abstract

Objective: Analyze the experience of active aging in the life's history of old people in the city of Franca (SP). Method: Study bibliographical, documentary and field research. Use the qualitative approach, we have opted for the oral history method, because it searches to explain the meanings of daily has grown significantly through the stories of lives, gathering information through interview. Results: The theoretical-methodology referential has found in following categories: 1) identity in old age: person, sociability and labor, 2) identity and active ageing. Discussion: The analyses of the data comprised three distinct phases: organizing and structuring of data, classification and interpretation of data. Conclusion: The challenge of the XXI century is to ensure the active and dignified ageing of the population, it seeks a society for all ages, so that older people have a participation in social life, to fight the determinants that compromise the active aging.