Broadening the possibilities of reformulating a project in oldage: a proposal of approach

Abstract

This work consists of the preparation of a guiding proposal framed in the work in mental health with older adults, destined to promote and accompany the reformulation of the identification project (Aulagnier, 1991) within a group device. We start with a critical review of the concepts and conceptions that have consolidated certain ways of understanding both old age and the processes that surround it, and then position ourselves in a complex perspective that encourages innovative and stimulating proposals for working with older adults. This work refers specifically to the orientative work framed in groupality and joint participation, mediated by the transversality of the developments in psychology and psychoanalysis, which allow to generate new tools in the strengthening of Mental Health in the elderly. This conceptual and reflective exercise decided in a proposal presented to the management of a Day Center for Older Adults of the city of La Plata in 2017, which sought to promote a new way of approaching workshops of stimulation and activities that produce subjective changes through participation, historicization and creativity. This same elaborated proposal will be retaken here as an exponent of the convergence between an ethical positioning in front of old age and the proposal of an innovative approach for the development of stimulating activities in an institution.