Social representations of the elderly about HIV/AIDS - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Social representations of the elderly about HIV/AIDS

ABSTRACT

Objective:

to understand the representational content about HIV/AIDS among seropositive elderly people.

Method:

a qualitative study carried out from April to May 2017, in the city of Recife/PE, with 48 seropositive elderly people, through a semi-structured interview. The Social Representations Theory was used as theoretical framework and the method of lexical analysis through IRAMUTEQ software.

Results:

it was observed that the social representation of HIV is structured around the proximity of death and that it is a disease of restricted groups, leading to feelings of sadness. On the other hand, it is evident a transformation of the representation linked to the reified knowledge, leading to the process of naturalization of the disease.

Final considerations:

it is concluded that the elderly living with HIV, when they undergo a process of reframing about the disease, become more flexible to deal with their condition of seropositivity.

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