SINKING RIVER: ON INCONSTANT STATUS OF MENTALITY AND MENTAL MAPPING PHENOMENA

The paper examines the issue of inconstancy and academic exclusion of the term mentality, which occur despite a long history of its being studied by several scholarly disciplines and a broad usage in various public spheres.Being of the opinion that, in the academic sense, the term mentality is like a sinking river - intermittently present and absen

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/217976927205 Objective: to understand the feelings of the institutionalized elderly related to aging and death.Method: this is a qualitative study conducted in seven elderly who are institutionalized, in July 2012.Results: the analysis of speeches made possible the construction of three thematic categories: Seizing the sta