SOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS AND THE RELATION WITH THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE ELDERLY: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC STUDY

Abstract

Aging is a universal phenomenon, with an exponential increase in longevity, and due to this and other factors, Long-Term Care Institutions (LTCFs) become, for many seniors, their new home. With regard to quality of life and old age, it is essential to include socio-emotional skills as an aspect of analysis. Thus, the objective of this study is to understand whether institutionalization influences the socio-emotional skills of the elderly. An integrative literature search was conducted in the databases Scielo, Lilacs, Pepsic, Periódicos Capes and the Google Scholar Virtual Library, based on the descriptors social skills, emotional skills, elderly and long-term care institutions, combined with each other by the Boolean term AND, and only scientific articles published in the period from 2017 to 2022 in the Portuguese language were selected. From the results, it was verified that the LTCFs influence the socio-emotional skills of the elderly in a positive and negative way, since the institutions can provide the stimulus in these skills, because it is a place where the elderly want better quality of life to the detriment of a solitary life in the community, but, on the other hand, there is the possibility of the lack of practices and few integrative resources in this environment, in addition to the loss of autonomy, sadness and experiences of abandonment.