Open AccessOld age as an experience in everyday life: Health and subjectivity in the voice of the old Basis for rethinking and reformulating social and government policies regarding the aging process
Author(s) -
Norma González González
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
south florida journal of development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2675-5459
DOI - 10.46932/sfjdv3n1-053
Subject(s) - subjectivity , phenomenon , face (sociological concept) , government (linguistics) , process (computing) , everyday life , population ageing , gaze , population , psychological intervention , psychology , order (exchange) , sociology , social psychology , public relations , political science , business , epistemology , social science , computer science , law , philosophy , linguistics , demography , finance , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , operating system
In today's societies, the growth of the older adult population has become a problem, and in a particular way it is presented as a challenge in terms of public policies. It has been common for attention to be directed to the needs of a medical-pharmacological nature and the interest it represents in demographic terms, presenting it as a serious problem for which contemporary societies are not prepared. However, it is a phenomenon that must be recovered and thought about in the mosaic of a complexity that forces us to direct our gaze towards other references and dimensions that turn out to be central in the claim for their comprehensive attention. Recover the first person speech of those who experience old age; their concerns, tensions, fears, needs and material and emotional requirements, entails and commits actions that in the short and medium term can make a difference in the face of a problem that is urgent to make visible, giving it existence in its different nuances and dimensions, in order to be able to generate the necessary interventions.