Educational policies for the elderly: UniSER — The aging UnB
higher education, aging, UnB, UnaTl; UniSER.
The present study, duly approved by the Ethics Committee, under number CAAE: 96840718.9.0000.8093, is part of the Graduate Program in Health Sciences and Technologies of the Faculty of Ceilandia (FCE) of the University of Brasilia (UnB), in scope of the Academic Doctorate, area of concentration in Promotion, Prevention and Intervention in Health - Line of research: Socio-Biological Determinants and Health Care - and has as general objective to analyze the existence of educational institutional policies for the elderly in the Federal Public Universities of the Central Region -West, having UnB as a case of analysis, from the University of Aging Program (UniSER) — Arte de Viver, of this university, in the course of 2015 to 2020. It is a bibliographic, exploratory study, with documentary collection of data extracted from the Institutional Development Plans (PDI's) of the 08 IFES, the application of questionnaires to the graduates and the execution of semi-structured interviews with the ges program, based on the mixed method and dialectical view. The data confirm that none of the PDIs analyzed with the Federal under study contain educational public policies, but specific actions. In turn, with regard to graduates, of the 489 certificates, 129 participated in the survey, representing a percentage of 26.4%, the maximum age was 84 years, the average age was 63.3 years and the average age 65 years. 86.80% were women and 13.20% were men. With regard to education, 31% completed high school and 31% have specialization. Of the respondents, 93% understand that UniSER is outlined as an educational public policy, and an extension action and that it marks itself as a possibility of access and permanence of the elderly in the university space. So much so that 84.5% of them considered themselves UnB students. Regarding the themes they proposed for the organization of their own curriculum, mental health, violence, intergenerationality, among others, emerged, however, it is necessary to institutionalize the program. From the point of view of managers, 05 understand that it is constituted as an educational public policy and 08 understand that it is not, and that the role of education in the face of aging must be inclusive and that UnB has a unique role in this scenario. Through the understanding that everyone can learn, the four pillars of education for the elderly and the seven knowledges emerge and, finally, the proposal for a national policy for aging. At the end of it all, it is expected that, in addition to building UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA/Faculdade de Ceilândia a policy, something else will occur, there will be a change in the institutional culture that will substantiate a differentiated educational public policy for the elderly, made with the elderly and of which they are a conscious protagonist. That UnB assumes this vanguard role, which suits it so well. The present study is a small seed, in the field of higher education and ageing, that new studies and research come, that the old man finds his place of respect and grows old as a right and not as a privilege of some.