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3011 The opinion of children about long permanence institutions for
elderly people: change for ludic contact in the toy library
Samantha Ribeiro Ultramari - Brazil ( samanthaultramari@yahoo.com.br )
This research verifies the opinion of children about the Long Permanence
Institution for Elderly People, before and after the ludic contact
with institutionalized seniors. It was developed with 21 institutionalized
seniors and 61 children between 7 and 12 years of age, of elementary
public schools. The opinion of these children is firstly checked, about
what they think a “long permanence institution” is, through drawings.
The ludic intervention is then realized with children and seniors, of 10
meetings with symbolic playing and games with rules, at the institution
toy library. After that, the opinion of the children is reevaluated.
For expressing their opinion, the children used drawings with the open
title “A long permanence institution is…”, to be completed. Drawings
were analyzed with subsidies of the projective test House-Tree-Person
(HTP). Results showed that, from one application to the other, 67% of
the children changed their opinion to a more positive one, in perceiving
the seniors interacting more and the Institution more humanized,
by means of more colorful drawings, houses with doors and windows,
people smiling and moving, and affectionate messages. On the negative
side, there were more bars and people without their faces, which
may represent the child’s perception of the seniors difficulty in making
contact with the outside world. This study points out, however, that the
characteristics of the institution researched, along with the realization
of ludic activities, may have favored the children’s change of opinion
after their ludic contact with the elderly people. The study indicates the
need for new researches about the interaction between the child and
the institutionalized senior.
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