Abstract

FERNANDES, Priscila Valverde; GRANGEIRO, Edna Salgado  and  SILVA, Maria Natividade Sá Alves da. Band 6.0: the music experience in the third age. Pesqui. prát. psicossociais [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.1, pp. 120-128. ISSN 1809-8908.

The process of aging is marked by the passage of years and by several very common bio psychosocial transitions. Nowadays, new forms of aging are verified and assuring the quality of life for the elderly poses a challenge. The Elderly Living Center, a service focused on the elderly, sought to use music as one of their working tools. The proposal was to create a music band in which the elderly were participants and coordinators of the group itself. The work was carried out in a transdisciplinary way and was considered extremely positive, since the elderly participants treated the band with a lot of commitment and seriousness. The band gave them social visibility. The elderly were fully dedicated to it so that each presentation was satisfactory. The results of this work were the strengthening of the self-image, greater appreciation of the elderly in general, and particularly the recognition of the elderly by their family and community.

Keywords : elderly; music; transdisciplinarity.

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