In a demographic context where population aging constitutes a significant social and healthcare challenge, the need to reconsider current models of care for older adults is increasingly evident. Narrative medicine offers an innovative and humanizing approach, one that enhances the full subjectivity of the patient through attentive listening, empathy, and the narration of lived experience. This thesis seeks to investigate the educational, relational, and transformative dimensions of narrative medicine within the context of elderly care. Following a theoretical overview that examines aging from both medical and pedagogical perspectives, the discussion will explore feasible educational practices and their pedagogical implications, with particular emphasis on the role of the social educator within Residential Care Facilities. The analysis draws upon authoritative sources, including monographs and peer-reviewed articles by recognized scholars, whose contributions have been critically contextualized to support the central arguments without distorting their original meaning. Ultimately, this work aspires to serve as both a foundation and an invitation: to map existing educational opportunities, inspire new approaches, and contribute to a renewed perspective on the elderly and their vulnerability one that recognizes fragility not as a limit, but as a space for relational and pedagogical significance.
In un contesto demografico in cui l’invecchiamento della popolazione rappresenta una vera e propria sfida sociosanitaria, emerge la necessità di ripensare modelli di cura rivolti agli anziani. La medicina narrativa si propone come un approccio innovativo e umanizzante, capace di valorizzare la soggettività del paziente a tutto tondo attraverso l’ascolto, l’empatia e la narrazione dei vissuti. Questa tesi si propone di esplorare i valori educativi, relazionali e trasformativi della medicina narrativa nell’ambito della cura alla persona anziana. Dopo un inquadramento teorico, nel quale verrà approfondito l’invecchiamento sia dal punto di vista medico che pedagogico, verranno analizzate le pratiche educative attuabili e le implicazioni pedagogiche di tali approcci, con particolare attenzione al ruolo dell’educatore sociale all’interno delle Residenze Sanitarie Assistenziali. Per la stesura ci si è affidati a fonti autorevoli quali monografie e articoli di autori riconosciuti, contestualizzando adeguatamente i pensieri di quest’ultimi in modo da consolidare il ragionamento svolto senza snaturare alcun significato o pensiero al fine ultimo di proporre un lavoro che intende – e spera – quindi essere un incipit a raccogliere e tracciare quante più possibilità educative attualmente in essere, ispirarne di nuove e riuscire a dare nuova luce alla figura dell’anziano e alla sua fragilità.
LA VOCE DEGLI ANNI Edutainment, medicina narrativa e percorsi educativi nella relazione con l’anziano
ARTICO, ALBERTO
2024/2025
Abstract
In a demographic context where population aging constitutes a significant social and healthcare challenge, the need to reconsider current models of care for older adults is increasingly evident. Narrative medicine offers an innovative and humanizing approach, one that enhances the full subjectivity of the patient through attentive listening, empathy, and the narration of lived experience. This thesis seeks to investigate the educational, relational, and transformative dimensions of narrative medicine within the context of elderly care. Following a theoretical overview that examines aging from both medical and pedagogical perspectives, the discussion will explore feasible educational practices and their pedagogical implications, with particular emphasis on the role of the social educator within Residential Care Facilities. The analysis draws upon authoritative sources, including monographs and peer-reviewed articles by recognized scholars, whose contributions have been critically contextualized to support the central arguments without distorting their original meaning. Ultimately, this work aspires to serve as both a foundation and an invitation: to map existing educational opportunities, inspire new approaches, and contribute to a renewed perspective on the elderly and their vulnerability one that recognizes fragility not as a limit, but as a space for relational and pedagogical significance.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14251/3224