Old age and culture in family and intergenerational relationships : a study with aged Japanese-Brazilian grandmothers in the city of Campinas / Velhice e cultura nas relações familiares e intergeracionais : um estudo com avos nipo-brasileiras na cidade de Campinas

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2008

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This study had as a goal to comprehend the reality of five nipo-brazilian elderly women, residents in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, born within the years 1923 and 1933, belonged to a relatively closed etnical group, in which the majority of their elderly participants, as in the interior of the families, as in the living centers, strain in the preservation of japanese values, beliefs and habits inherited from their ancestors. It had as theoretical basis the process of aging under the perspective of human development throughout life, considering the individual development inside social contexts also in development, taking into consideration that the individuals do not evolve isolated, but they share experiences with their equals. Method: oral reports were used, through recorded individual interviews, based in half structured questionnaire, asking the elderly women to remember their childhood and the relationship with parents and grandparents, as well their life experiences related to the immigration process itself and yet, that they reported how are today their familiar and intergenerational relationships. It is a qualitative research, of transverse character. Results: The analysis of the oral reports allowed to know the historical restrictions and the idealistic images that the elderly women have of their origin country, as well to notice how these aspects influence their process of aging in Brazil and the importance of this fact in living with their matches and relatives, strengthening their social binds and the feeling of belonging to an specific group. Conclusion: The preservation and the maintenance of the culture, in initiatives from these elderly women, together with those from other elderly from the same cohort, they have a sense of emotinal regulation in elderliness, in the maintenance of the identity with the group and in the functionality face their relatives and descendants

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family relationships desenvolvimento humano human development relações familiares idosos elderly

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