Abstract
This study aimed to report the experience of a multidisciplinary team in the implementation of a Retirement Preparation Program for municipal civil servants. It was an experience report of the implementation of a pilot project of a Retirement Preparation Program in an Own Social Security Regime of a medium-sized municipality in the interior of the State of São Paulo. The experiment was carried out in five stages: (a) Dissemination of the program; (b) Screening of participants; (c) Pre-program evaluation; (d) Development of the program and themes; and (e) Post-program evaluation. As qualifiers of the experience, quantitative and qualitative data were presented, collected from semi-open questionnaires, applied at the beginning and end of the experience, as part of the construction and improvement stages of the program. Five thematic group meetings were held with a total of 28 participants. Among the participants who reevaluated the program, 100% (n=17) qualified it as good or excellent, 94% (n=16) stated that they had clarified doubts, 71% (n=12) reported having changed their understanding of retirement and adopted new attitudes to prepare, and 82% (n=14) stated that they contributed to the preparation for retirement. There were qualitative reports on the reframing of the concept of retirement, changes in the decision to choose to benefit, and the construction of new perspectives of the future. The pilot project carried out proved to be a possible strategy for the preparation about the process of retirement and life planning, it is an eminent need to implement actions in this direction to promote the quality of life of public servants.
Keywords:
Occupational Therapy; Retirement; Aging