Religiosidade: fator de resiliência em idosas institucionalizadas na cidade de Juiz de Fora-MG

Abstract

The relationship between religiosity and aging is an important research bias regarding the health of institutionalized elderly in Brazil. Influenced by technological and social advances, by the increase of the elderly population, immersed in a rapid and intense demographic transition, the concerns and interventions in the health field of the elderly population began to value beyond the physical, psychological and social elements, the religious beliefs. This paper seeks to make some observations about the relationship between religiosity and resilience in institutionalized elderly. It uses as theoretical framework the resilience understood as the ability to go through adverse situations and get stronger, and asks: if religiosity is a health issue and what are the factors of resilience are implicated in this experience. Their data come from research at a Long Stay Institution for the Elderly - ILPIs, in the city of Juiz de Fora-MG. For this investigation, the content analysis methodology was used. The analysis of the collected data and the categories constructed from the method contributed to the understanding of the researched phenomenon. In this research, based on the results found, it is shown that religiosity can be understood as a resilience factor in institutionalized elderly.