Satisfaction and body image in the elderly person: An integrative literature review
International Journal of Development Research
Satisfaction and body image in the elderly person: An integrative literature review
Received 28th October, 2019; Received in revised form 17th November, 2019; Accepted 06th December, 2019; Published online 31st January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Cesar Augusto Marton et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Regarding issues related to body image, the elderly population presents itself as an object of relevant research, because it has, due to the naturalness of the passage of time, physical and psychological changes that determine the way of observing the own body. Aiming to reflect on the referred problem, the study proposed here aims to investigate the nuances regarding the subject of body image in the elderly that have been discussed in research at the national level, as well as to demonstrate the understandings and conclusions that these research has made it emerge. Thus, an integrative literature review was carried out. The search process used the following descriptors: ‘’ imagem ’’AND‘’ corporal ’'AND‘ ‘idosos’'. The search was based on abstracts in the cases of SciELO and PePSIC search engines, and in full texts in the case of DOAJ. Once the inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, the refined results were as follows: 1) SciELO - 6 results; 2) PePSIC - 1 results; and 3) DOAJ - 3 results, totaling 10 works.
