In her most recent dance production, Salvado (“that which can be saved”), the performer Olga Roriz demonstrated, at Lisbon’s Teatro São Luiz (July 2025), that as she approaches the age of seventy, her creative journeys not only remain provocative and moving, but also embody a profoundly affecting history of love and longing for human presence […]
Categoria: ageing
Screened at the opening session of the festival “Triste Para Sempre” in Lisbon, in December 2024, the film “Alma Anciana” (ancient soul) tells the intertwined stories of three elderly groups whose vastly different family ties and trajectories paint a profound picture about care, vulnerability and resilience. Set in Porto (Portugal), Vienna (Austria) and Havana (Cuba), […]
A exposição fotográfica “A Arte de Envelhecer – Dar Mais Vida aos Anos”, concebida por Sandra Ventura e que ficou aberta ao público até ao dia 1 de dezembro de 2024, no Museu da Farmácia de Lisboa, reuniu algumas qualidades que merecem ser aqui discutidas. Seja pela capacidade da expressividade artística em interpelar os sujeitos, […]
Helga MartinsPos-doctoral Fellow at Integral Human Development Program, PhD, RN, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Doctoral School (CADOS). Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, Lisbon, Portugal.Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Escola Superior de Saúde. R. Dr. José Correia Maltez, 7800-111 Beja, Portugal.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5804-7934E-mail: hemartins@ucp.pt Honoring Nursing’s Past, Crafting a Vision for the […]
“Tell me what you do when you are free to do as you wish, and I will tell you what kind of person you are” (Charles Brightbill, 1960) I’m writing this text out of practical concerns about everyday life. For example, why is it accepted that older people’s free time is all free? And do […]
The increasing awareness that in the western world more people are living to a later age, but that there may be fewer people available for the care required, has made it essential to consider attitudes and behaviours regarding ageism and cooperation with the most immediate network. Carlos Barros The difficulty to support various age groups […]
Despite the big steps that still need to be taken, there is added hope in the small steps, reflected in the fluidity of these families who tend to participate more and more and with less rigidity of roles. Carlos Barros Under a transdisciplinary approach, solidarity can be defined as a union of interests, sympathies and […]