Education and active aging

This text presents the results of an investigation/intervention project developed with elderly people. It aimed at the promotion of active aging in a specific institutional context and, by following participatory action-research guidelines, was based on the dynamization of four workshops that favored the education/learning process of the participants. The data collected was analyzed according to an interpretive-hermeneutic qualitative methodology. The results showed an inescapable relationship between education and active aging. Among other positive results, the analysis revealed the construction of new learning and the promotion of social interaction and interpersonal relationship and increased well-being as strategies favoring a active aging process.