CONSUMO ALIMENTAR SAUDÁVEL NO PROCESSO DE ENVELHECIMENTO: fatores que se interpõem conforme a classe social.
CONSUMO ALIMENTAR SAUDÁVEL NO PROCESSO DE ENVELHECIMENTO: fatores que se interpõem conforme a classe social.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.85724110611
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Palavras-chave: Consumo alimentar; Fatores; Envelhecimento; Qualidade de vida.
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Keywords: Food consumption; Factors; Aging; Quality of life.
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Abstract: Studies show that the vast majority of elderly people, do not know how to identify foods that are good for them (recommended by medical professionals) and those that are related to health, therefore, they end up making mistakes that compromise healthy food consumption. Faced with this problem, this study aims to analyze and understand the social representations of elderly people from different social classes in the city of Recife-PE regarding the relation between healthy food consumption and quality of life in the aging process. More specifically, understanding the factors that stand in the way of healthy eating during the aging process. This is a case study, with a quantitative approach, whose analysis method consists of the social representations of the subjects, from which the views, conceptions, values, customs and eating habits are learned. Forty elderly people make up a sample, of both sexes, aged between 60-90 years, belonging to social classes A, B, C, D and E according to the socioeconomic classification of IBGE (2015). The results show that the majority of interviewees are female, aged between 60 and 74 years old, have incomplete primary education and only 7.5% have completed higher education. Holidays, benefits and pensions, as a rule, do not exceed more than two minimum delays for seniors in classes D and E, while seniors in classes A and B experience 20 minimum delays or more. Consider from the analyzes that several factors interfere with the practice of healthy eating in the aging process, according to social class.
- Iêda Litwak de Andrade Cezar
- Joseana Maria Saraiva
- Iêda Litwak Andrade Cezar
- João Guilherme Carvalho de Freitas
- Leyliane Clênia Alves da Silva Marques