Autobiographical narratives in the elderly with neurocognitive disorder: an integrative literature review

Autobiographical narratives in the elderly with neurocognitive disorder: an integrative literature review

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ABSTRACT Objective: to carry out an integrative review of the literature on autobiographical narratives as a discursive activity in the older adult with neurocognitive disorder.Methods: a descriptive study that covered the Scopus, SciELO, PubMed, and read more Science Direct databases, from 2009 to 2019, using the keywords autobiographical, narrative, dementia, reminiscence, the elderly, and the Boolean operator.A narrative synthesis was adopted considering the characteristics of the clinical, and methodological heterogeneity of the studies.Results: the results included 3 articles published between 2012 and 2018, in the English language, from the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Argentina, which highlighted the us polo assn mens sweaters autobiographical narratives.

Although in a strict sense they did not present the narrative as a specific objective of the autobiographical study, they did provide interesting and related data which justified their inclusion.Conclusion: it is observed that the literature researched presents a limited number of articles, adressing the autobiographical narrative as a discursive activity in the elderly with neurocognitive disorder.