Atividades intergeracionais

: o impacto das atividades intergeracionais no desempenho cognitivo dos idosos

Abstract

Nowadays, the demographic and social changes has shown the importance of contact between generations, which is assumed as a strategy for promoting intergenerational solidarity. This thesis examines the implications of intergenerational activities as cognitive benefit experienced by seniors who make up a day center where activities were developed between children and the elderly. With this aim, we applied, sociodemographic questionnaire, Mini-Mental adapted for the Portuguese population by Guerrero et al (1993), Geriatric Depression Scale, the English version of Cardoso and Martin (2007), Intergenerational Activities Questionnaire adapted from Dellmann-Jenkins (1997). The sample comprises 24 elderly with a median age of 78 years. The results suggest that seniors sample documents showing the cognitive benefits after participating in intergenerational activities with children. In answer to this question it’s relevant to implement intergenerational activities between children and seniors.

Date of Award	1 Mar 2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima (Supervisor)