Español Ser residente

La experiencia de la vejez en una residencia geriátrica pública de Buenos Aires

Authors

  • Matías Paschkes Ronis Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani", Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/rep.v13i26.56830

Abstract

This article is based on an investigation that aimed to investigate and explore the experience of living in a public geriatric residence managed by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. If generally these institutions were studied as areas of solitude and passivity in which elderly people who can no longer fend for themselves and are in their last stage of life are confined, this work poses the challenge of approaching them as a world of life.

The research approach was carried out from an ethnographic methodology. From a field work carried out between 2016 and 2018, it was possible to explore the ways in which residents experience old age and inhabiting the institution. The ethnographic work led me to develop a perspective that I called "gerontology of experience", from which I have sought to learn and reflect on old age beyond age, to consider it as a specific and situated experience

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Published

2023-01-25

Issue

Section

Artigos