Condições de letramento no processo de envelhecimento: uma análise junto a idosos com mais de 65 anos

Abstract

Souza Filho PP. The conditions of literacy in the aging process: an analysis with elderly over 65 years [thesis]. Curitiba: Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná; 2011. With the increasing of human longevity and consequently of the elderly population, one must consider a life of quality and autonomy, and the conditions of reading and writing play an important role in the aging process, especially by being inserted in a literate society. In this context, this study proposes to examine the conditions of literacy of people aged at least 65 years. We used a questionnaire and a reading test containing texts of various genres from the 72 elderly subjects over 65 years living in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The questionnaire includes age, educational level, profession, and practices and situations of reading and writing. In the reading test, subjects were asked to find explicit and implicit information in four texts: a fable, a poster, a ticket, and a newspaper. The elderly, the research subjects, now have easy daily access to books, magazines and newspapers. But the connection with these materials is still lacking, with a significant practical use restricted to written language. In addition, we determined that 43.39% of these individuals have difficulty extracting information from simple texts that are present in everyday life. There is need for special attention by civil society organizations and the scientific community to enlarge the understanding of practices of reading and writing in the context of gerontology to significantly benefit our society in medium and long term, with the promotion of activities that enable the elderly to exercise their basic rights as citizens.

Fatores associados ao letramento funcional em saúde da pessoa idosa em tratamento pré-dialítico

“…Low education is also frequent in the old people population with CKD and reverberates the precarious and less accessible educational situation of the 20th century, in which the priority for the population was work 23 . In this research, schooling was directly proportional to FHL, corroborating a study carried out with 72 old people, 31.94% said they had elementary school and had difficulty in understanding and textual interpretation and 37.25% had restricted conditions for reading 24 .…”

importância da avaliação do letramento funcional em saúde no idoso: revisão integrativa

“…Outros estudos analisaram as condições de letramento de pessoas com idade mínima de 65 anos, comparando tais condições entre idosos que têm grau de instrução compatível com nível superior completo e aqueles que não têm, ou ainda sujeitos alfabetizados em relação a não alfabetizados, (18,19) . O que corrobora com outros autores, no qual analisaram as condições de letramento de sujeitos com idade superior a 60 anos, revelando que, de forma geral, pessoas idosas apresentam também uma relação restrita com a escrita (20,21) .…”