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Seniors in trial in the urban circuit: report of an experience

This article presents an account of a two year experiment conducted with the elderly who attended a community center. The need of thinking of a different way of care for this population came after they joined the institution and after a critical analysis about the engendered subjective assemblages in the institutional environment was made. The construction of a circulation space in other territories was proposed, as well as meetings in experimentations never imagined before. Thus, this longing materialized in the form of workshop rides, carried out in urban circuits, that aimed to create spaces for the reframing of old concepts. The results obtained showed that the elderly who attended the workshop came to realize that they can transcend what's given, and be the subjects of experiencing the act of nomadic peoples: exist in a constant movement of deterritorialization and reterritorialization, in other words, live their humanity in its singularity: the possibility of reinvent themselves each day.

Social integration; Lifestyle; Seniors; Quality of life


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