Institutionalized elderly in Santa Maria (RS): leisure as a possibility for social inclusion

Abstract

This work had the main objective of investigate how the leisure for the institutionalized elderly and that the long-term care institutions offer to them, in the municipality of Santa Maria. There was a semi-structured interview with the elderly and the managers of LTIES, seeking to understand the design of both. As results were observed that the elderly do not have clear what is leisure, as well as the institutions do not offer and when they do it is the leisure static or sightseeing. We can conclude that for the elderly leisure is everything that escapes from your daily routine.  </p