We seek, in this paper, to identify which means healthy alimentation for the elderly and the difficulties found daily to incorporate this set of precepts. We interviewed 202 elderly over 60 years, most females (93.1%), current or previous participants of activities at the Open University for Studies on the Elderly of Rio de Janeiro State University (70.8%). The responses indicate an ideology which has close ties to the concern for health, to prevent or treat chronic and degenerative diseases, with biologicist and medicalizing character of eating distanced from the world of desire and subjectivity. Difficulties concerning purchasing power, family life or solitude, biological issues imposed by the aging process appear as limiting to the regular practice of healthy eating. We believe that, from reflections on these questions, you can enrich the concept of healthy eating, including effectively both inside the health, as disease, considering the importance of a dialogue in which the subjects are experts, health professionals and elderly subjects, included therein, technical and subjective aspects in the construction of life projects, of projects of happiness.
Feeding; Health; Aged; Aging; Elderly Nutrition; Food Habits