Pilates como intervenção terapêutica não farmacológica para idosos com câncer na atenção hospitalar: um olhar sobre a doença experiência

Abstract

With aging, there are physiological, morphological and functional changes that negatively interfere with the functional capacity of the elderly. These changes entail losses that can impair the autonomy and independence of the elderly, which can be aggravated by the diagnosis of a serious illness. The objective was to understand the effects of the Pilates Method on the experience of elderly peo-ple in Hospital Care. The research universe consisted of 12 individuals, diagno-sed with cancer and included in Hospital Care. These volunteered to participate in the Pilates Project offered at a Hospital in Belo Horizonte. Semi-structured in-terviews and participant observation were carried out, performed before the in-tervention with the Pilates Method and three months after. The technique used for analysis was dialectical hermeneutics. The results revealed the analysis ca-tegories: “Pilates: an opportunity”; “Interpreting health”; “Interpreting the disease”; “Disease: news x acceptance”; “Pilates is movement”; “Pilates and socialization” and “Pilates: body-mind-spirit”. It is concluded that the fact of positive experien-ces in hospital care and establishing new bonds and new concepts of belonging was beneficial for the quality of life of individuals.