O acelerado envelhecimento populacional mundial, especialmente o brasileiro, remete a necessidade de atenção e estudos que contribuam para melhor compreensão e estímulo de iniciativas que possam promover a integração social e o bem-estar dos idosos. O turismo, enquanto alternativa de lazer, tem demonstrado interesse, ainda que pouco, em direcionar seus estudos ao atendimento de idosos apresentando, normalmente, como foco a segmentação de mercado. Ao se direcionar o olhar nos sujeitos do turismo , verifica-se uma lacuna de estudos que atente as possibilidades turísticas para idosos asilados e, geralmente esquecidos pela sociedade. Diante disso, esta investigação, de corte qualitativo, utilizou a história oral de vida de 14 idosos do Asilo Padre Cacique, em Porto Alegre, para verificar se a inserção de atividades de lazer e turismo neste asilo podem contribuir para a melhoria da qualidade de vida e o bem-estar de seus moradores, além de buscar identificar os sentidos e significados do turismo a estes idosos. O estudo é apresentado por uma narrativa que menciona a história de dona Odete, uma personagem inspirada nas histórias de vida dos idosos do asilo e criada como pano de fundo para apresentar as discussões sobre o processo de envelhecimento; a conjuntura asilar; questões vinculadas ao lazer e ao turismo apresentando resultados que explicitam a necessidade de implantação de ações que focalizem o elemento humano como princípio de práticas turísticas e de lazer. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-15T17:06:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Luciana Babinski.pdf: 19505501 bytes, checksum: 375645073bd7098379c0542e71dcb51c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-15T17:06:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Luciana Babinski.pdf: 19505501 bytes, checksum: 375645073bd7098379c0542e71dcb51c (MD5) / The fast world population aging process, specially the brazilian, leads to a necessity of attention and studies that contribute to a better comprehension and encourage initiatives that promote a social integration and wellness of the elderly. The tourism, as an alternative of leisure, has shown interest, even still small, in direct their studies to the elderly assistance presenting, usually, as a focus of market segmentation. When focusing the look in the subjects of the tourism , we notice a lack of studies that attempt to these touristic possibilities for old age pensioners, and, usually forgotten by the society. Facing that, this investigation, of qualitative cut, used the told life story of 14 elderly from the old age home Asilo Padre Cacique, in Porto Alegre, to verify if the insertion of leisure and tourism activities in this home can contribute for a better life quality and wellness of their residents, besides of identifying the meaning of tourism for this elderly. The study is presented by a narrative that mentions the story of Miss Odete, a character inspired in the residents life style stories and created as a background to show the discussions about the aging process, the home structure, questions connected to leisure and tourism showing results that evidence the necessity of actions that focus in the human element as the beginning of leisure and tourism practices.

O acelerado envelhecimento populacional mundial, especialmente o brasileiro, remete a necessidade de atenção e estudos que contribuam para melhor compreensão e estímulo de iniciativas que possam promover a integração social e o bem-estar dos idosos. O turismo, enquanto alternativa de lazer, tem demonstrado interesse, ainda que pouco, em direcionar seus estudos ao atendimento de idosos apresentando, normalmente, como foco a segmentação de mercado. Ao se direcionar o olhar nos sujeitos do turismo , verifica-se uma lacuna de estudos que atente as possibilidades turísticas para idosos asilados e, geralmente esquecidos pela sociedade. Diante disso, esta investigação, de corte qualitativo, utilizou a história oral de vida de 14 idosos do Asilo Padre Cacique, em Porto Alegre, para verificar se a inserção de atividades de lazer e turismo neste asilo podem contribuir para a melhoria da qualidade de vida e o bem-estar de seus moradores, além de buscar identificar os sentidos e significados do turismo a estes idosos. O estudo é apresentado por uma narrativa que menciona a história de dona Odete, uma personagem inspirada nas histórias de vida dos idosos do asilo e criada como pano de fundo para apresentar as discussões sobre o processo de envelhecimento; a conjuntura asilar; questões vinculadas ao lazer e ao turismo apresentando resultados que explicitam a necessidade de implantação de ações que focalizem o elemento humano como princípio de práticas turísticas e de lazer. / The fast world population aging process, specially the brazilian, leads to a necessity of attention and studies that contribute to a better comprehension and encourage initiatives that promote a social integration and wellness of the elderly. The tourism, as an alternative of leisure, has shown interest, even still small, in direct their studies to the elderly assistance presenting, usually, as a focus of market segmentation. When focusing the look in the subjects of the tourism , we notice a lack of studies that attempt to these touristic possibilities for old age pensioners, and, usually forgotten by the society. Facing that, this investigation, of qualitative cut, used the told life story of 14 elderly from the old age home Asilo Padre Cacique, in Porto Alegre, to verify if the insertion of leisure and tourism activities in this home can contribute for a better life quality and wellness of their residents, besides of identifying the meaning of tourism for this elderly. The study is presented by a narrative that mentions the story of Miss Odete, a character inspired in the residents life style stories and created as a background to show the discussions about the aging process, the home structure, questions connected to leisure and tourism showing results that evidence the necessity of actions that focus in the human element as the beginning of leisure and tourism practices.

E-commerce technologies have many possible applications both in commercial and non-commercial operations. The development and implementation of these applications is on the increase especially by government and its agencies, for the delivery of services. Specific to this study is the distribution of old age pension benefits to recipients that reside in the rural areas of South Africa. Of importance to this study are the factors that promote and impinge on the development, implementation and acceptance of these applications. A specific project, the Pension Biometric Project was implemented by the South African Post Office in line with the government's initiatives of improving service delivery, and in response to the encroaching digital economy. The research problem is to investigate the pensioners' perception and their experience of three areas of this project, its implementation, its acceptance and its uses and impact. The research was conducted in the constructivist paradigm, using the case study research method. Three data collection methods were used, i.e. a document study of SAPO project documentation, on-site observations and interviews with pensioners. It was found that despite problems in implementation, the pensioners were accepting of the new system, although they were ignorant of the functionalities of the smart card. Consequently, few pensioners were making use of the banking facilities of the card, or had changed their economic behaviour. The study has also found that two themes are overriding all findings of the study. These two themes are ignorance and dignity. Ignorance has had a causal effect on adoption of the smart cards and dignity has been found to be a result of the project. The overriding implication of this study is that pensioners' ignorance around issues of service delivery by government and its agencies needs to be eradicated, otherwise there is no reliable way of measuring efforts against actual delivery. Also, the fact that dignity has emerged as an overriding theme needs to be deliberately strengthened, and maybe even driven as a specified objective of the Pension Biometric Project. Recommendations in this regard are provided as well as ideas for further research.