Being an institutionalized elderly person: meaning of experiences based on Heidegger's phenomenology.
Camila Calhau Andrade ReisTânia Maria de Oliveira MenezesAdriana Valéria da Silva FreitasLarissa Chaves PedreiraRaniele Araújo de FreitasIsabella Batista PiresPublished in: Revista brasileira de enfermagem (2019)
The ontological needs referring to being an elderly person remain forgotten. As we are ontic and ontological, limited care to the ontic instance indicates deficiencies in institutionalization. Improvements are required to ensure the right to age with quality of life to this population.