2016-12-282014-11-072016-12-282014-11-07http://hdl.handle.net/123456730/195The discussion that involves issues of human life and the rupture of some concepts in postmodern society it discusses issues that transcend analyzes holders of ambiguity and / or contradictions to be reflected and discussed, which lead to reviews of the condition of man inserted into the center of social relations. Dealing on this axis, "My life, my time, my condition" aims to conduct a study on the situation of the elderly in contemporary society in times of social change increasingly accelerated and the alternatives for dealing with such matters, whose most prominent is under the biases of family dynamics and the process of institutionalization. The adopted research line was based on the theory of the fragility of human relationships studied by important contemporary thinkers. For better understanding of the study, it was necessary to use as the research process, reviews and bibliographic analysis and search on sites referring to questions on the subject, as well as observation and empirical description, this quantity with the qualitative method. An emphasis on the second approach, it is important to note that this research was conducted through semi-structured interviews with twenty (20) old, between 65 (sixty-five) to 85 (eighty-five) years, of both sexes residing in an institution of for the Aged (LTCF), located in the city of Salvador, Bahia. Lets say that such analyzes were relevant to understanding both the everyday life of the elderly who reside in a place of this nature, taking into account the diagnosis of your current social condition, as the family dynamics in which it appears. From this vision comes the next question: living in a nursing home is an option or result of a process in which adds to the lack of choice? What's between the lines of this reality? What were the main causes that led these individuals to decide for this way of life, to allow to be in this condition? In the concluding reflections, it is noted that the current situation of the elderly features a challenging reality, especially when part to the view that the institutionalization is under complex bases and that the family is the pillar of this process, specifically colliding. It could be observed, at times, the fragility of these bonds, so the institutionalization often represents an alternative to deal with the consequences of this situation, resulting in a shed that fact relatively acceptable and full of contradictions. These questions were analyzed during the research process, pointing thus the limits and dimensions of this problem, a special focus contemporary social situation experienced by these subjects, specifically those that are inserted in this condition, the elderly housed.  Acesso AbertoRelações humanasSociedade pós-modernaIdosoFamíliaCondição de vidaInstituição de longa permanênciaHuman relationsPostmodern societyElderlyFamilyLiving conditions.Institution of the long termDissertaçãoSociais e HumanidadesMultidisciplinar