This work aimed at knowing the social representations of the body in the senior piauienses’ men perspective. 50 men, who were 60 years old or more, with average of 72 years old participated in the research. It was used as instrument a partner-demographic questionnaire and an interview structured with a question concerning the corporal changes. The analysis of the data was made through the software of quantitative analysis of textual data (Alceste). It was verified among the seniors a representation of the body as a synonym of health besed on an organic perspective of the corporal changes that come along with the aging process. It was identified that most of the men adopt an impersonal view regarding the body that doesn’t involve self-esteem and that summarizes the simbology of the body to factors connected to health, which is a consequence of the self-defeating way the body in seen the psicossocial context, where idealized aesthetic patterns linked to beauty are worsened by the loss of the physical force and the energetic decadence.
Body; Social representations; Senior; Old age
