Conexões entre mulheres idosas em tempo suspenso: o árido presente atravessado pelas transitórias memórias familiares

Abstract

This is a master's research carried out at a time of systemic impacts resulting from the SARS COVID-19 pandemic, especially to older people referenced in their vulnerabilities. Enrolled in the Family in Social Sciences research line, it brings a multidisciplinary approach to the existential needs of elderly women and connections with authorial female voices outline the present research. A qualitative approach to the aspects of old age, mapped by describable cross-sectional bibliographic studies, exposed with individual experiences expanded to collective scales of socialization. The intertwining of times and stories of topical lives of elderly women - with empirical collection and follow-up of three elderly women aged between 85 and 90 years - carried out in narrative meetings where conversations and the use of photographic records and memory-objects made it possible to record memories and stories of life experiences. Although life narratives as an epistemological project in the Humanities and Social Sciences are presented in several studies already produced, I offer my academic contribution to the promotion of fair symmetry between subjects and research objects, providing considerations for a contemporary social problem: old age. In addition to the categories extracted, the results point to the great loneliness and depression suffered by the elderly population as a result of the imposed confinement, the need to value individual memories for the construction of collective identities, the importance of further studies on feelings and their meanings. political and social.