摘要：This research has been main goal to understand the aging experience of twelve men and women, between 68 and 95 years old, they live in Mafra- SC. Their job and retirement were central in meaning construction of aging. Research proves to have several manners of old, so positives as negatives. Besides, there is a great difference between the theory about the aging and the manner how this persons live though this stage of their life, this time isn’t the old synonymous with loss and decline that it talking about, but another aging, more positive, especially considering the individual trajectories.
