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    Significados sobre autonomia de idosos participantes de um Processo de Inclusão Digital (PID)
    (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2009-08-26) Santos, Luciane de Medeiros dos [UNIFESP]; Ramos, Luiz Roberto [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
    General Objective: To gather social representations regarding the autonomy of elderly people participating in a digital inclusion process (DIP) that was developed through health promotion groups (HPGs). Specific Objectives: To comprehend the meanings ascribed by elderly women and men to their autonomy within their conditions of life; To identify possible influences of the DIP on the meanings ascribed by these elderly people to their autonomy; To put the meanings of autonomy among this population into the context of reflections directed towards empowerment within the field of health promotion. Methodology: Data collection and analysis were performed by means of field observations on participants, interviews with a structured path and discourse analysis. Study subjects: These were elderly people within the Epidoso Project who had expressed a desire to participate in a DIP developed through HPGs. Results: The discourse analysis resulted in construction of analysis categories that correlated autonomy with self-image, intersubjectivity, sexuality, gender, comprehensive healthcare, health promotion and digital inclusion. These categories gave emotional and rational support for autonomous or heteronymous choices. The importance of concepts of cooperation and oppression in building autonomous and heteronymous knowledge/practices was identified. Digital inclusion among elderly people may favor increased cooperative autonomy, health promotion and empowerment. The concept of cooperative autonomy was drawn up to understand social representations regarding elderly people’s autonomy. Final considerations: Cooperative autonomy among elderly people takes shape under the following conditions: they should be cognitively lucid and emotionally willing, at least circumstantially, to live with others; they should know their own and other people’s needs and desires; they should accept and respect the emotions and rationalizations that support the choices of each of the individuals comprising the relationship; they should choose conciliatory actions that allow them to concede some desires that are considered less important (for themselves or for the other person), so that requirements that are considered fundamental can take shape. Access to information and services through digital means does not in itself alone ensure that heteronymous social representations forming the basis for oppressive/paternalistic conditions can be overcome, but it may serve to democratize the knowledge/practices produced in different societies, for increasingly large numbers of individuals. Elderly people qualify digital inclusion as a resource that can be added to their life histories. Through digital resources, such individuals are recognized as up-to-date and included within contemporary society, thus making it possible to satisfy their own and other people’s needs and desires.