Reflections on old age: possible identities in the aging process in contemporary times
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https://doi.org/10.51880/ho.v24i1.1128Keywords:
Elderly person, Memory, Oral History, Narrative, IdentityAbstract
This article aims to think about the aging processes and the identities of the elderly in contemporary times. Through Oral History we understand the need for a listening in which the speech acts revealed in the voice of our narrator make that imagery and representations on which the understanding and definition of old age are based are not seen as the reification of an assumption about the elderly.
As aging is a process that is based on an uncertain definition, the identities linked to the aging process
combine a claiming discourse that transforms the contemporary aging process into a multiple experience. Analyzing the polyphony of meanings of aging requires transit between categories such as birth group, generation, social class, old age, among others, to think about issues related to the identification of the elderly as a social being, with unique experiences.
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