Recreação e lazer: sua importância no resgate de valores humanos na terceira idade

Abstract

Recreational activities are an important tool for social and introspective development. Throughout life the person develops human values through experiences. This research, of qualitative nature, has the objective of verifying the capacity and the importance of recreation in the recovery of human values on older adults, by comparing non-participating individuals and participating individuals of recreational activities in the Sem Fronteiras project from Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba. The data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews based on a previously prepared questionnaire. Afterwards, a Content Analysis was performed covering techniques such as Synthesis of Content Analysis, Explanatory Analysis of Content and Structuring Analysis of Content. The resulting data was categorized and arranged in accordance with the following human values: friendship, cooperation, love, optimism and tolerance. The study results converge with the idea that recreation does play an important role at the formation of the person and in the recovery of human values on older adults. The survey respondents also proved to be great sources of information and rich experience that can be relevant for studies aiming this age group.