Problematization about elderly health promotion themes based on a dramatistic experience

This article presents a teaching-learning experience about elderly people's health promotion in the family context, using problematization as the educational approach and employing the collective construction, discussion and presentation of a theatrical text. This experience involved the participation of researchers, technicians and students from the Elderly Healthcare Nucleus of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, as well as managers, technicians and users of the Elderly Centers supported by the municipal government of Recife. The experience was evaluated as capable of providing content integration, articulating knowledge from different health subjects and professions, besides allowing the dialogue between the concepts brought by the social actors involved, using both verbal and body language. It was considered that a theoretical construction shared by the educational system and by the public service provider was achieved through the combination between the accumulated knowledge and the observations that resulted from the relationship between them.

Elderly Health Promotion; Problematization in Health Professions Teaching; Theater as Pedagogical Strategy