Impactos das ações de intervenção da UAMA no enfrentamento de assimetrias locais para a qualidade de vida multidimensional nos idosos campinenses

Abstract

The present study had as objective to analyze the impacts of intervention actions of the UAMA on the multidimensional quality of life of the elderly in the city of Campina Grande-PB. The research, part of the combined definition taxonomy of Farquhar (1995), by the possibility of associations of different dimensions of the quality of life in the social unfoldings. The theoretical models of Spilker (1990), Day and Jankey (1996) and Fleck (2000) - WHOQOL-bref, are also used as basis for the study proposal, in order to select the criteria for selection and inclusion of groupings in multiple biases in the quality of life: environmental, economic, educational, health and social. The strategy adopted is a descriptive-analytical case study, with a mixed approach, through the qualitative and quantitative approach, with a multi-methodological perspective. The unit of analysis is the University Open to Maturity of the State University of Paraíba - UAMA / UEPB. The research subjects were the elderly students and the coordinator. Semi-structured interviews were developed with twenty-one subjects and a questionnaire was applied to the elderly. The treatment of quantitative data was used for the elaboration of graphs in different metrics; the qualitative data followed the analysis of the interviews and for the evaluation of the social project, the models of Cohen et al. (2011), Miranda (2007) and Arretche (2001). The results indicated: social inclusion of the elderly in the program; motivation in continuous learning with inclusive, intergenerational and sociotransforming methodologies; self- esteem and social support in combating isolation; urgency in the promotion of new environmental actions; breaking the criterion of economic limit for access to the program; induction of biopsychosocial well-being; reinsertion and integration in overcoming stigmas, vulnerabilities and social asymmetries; changes in lifestyle, resignification and dignity, among others. It was concluded that the intervention actions of the UAMA contributed to the improvement of the quality of life for the social development of the elderly in Campinas, in which the health dimension was greater intervention, with 95% satisfaction of the assisted, followed by 93% for the educational dimensions and social - attending the individualities of this age group, while the economic dimension was 92%, due to the positive effects of institutional investment on the demands of the elderly and on the environmental bias. The study showed 89% satisfaction and the need for more energetic actions recycling and ecological protection.