Community care conversation rounds: building therapeutic space for the elderly in quilombolas communities

Abstract

Aim: to report the experience of a university extension project on Community Therapy Integrative Conversation Rounds in quilombos, which has offered the elderly of this community a therapeutic space for listening and speaking in sharing sufferings and discoveries. Method: 16 people, aged between 60 and 80 years-old, in the period from May 2013 to January 2014 in Conde, Paraiba, participated. Results: the life stories reported in the developed conversation rounds were marked by the theme of the struggle for land, access to housing, health, education, employment and income. The revealed sufferings were concerned with diseases; fear of becoming useless against the aging and family conflicts. Final thoughts: it was found the social relevance of this tool, since it provided an opportunity of moments of subjective expression related to Afro-descendant culture.