“…The participation of the elderly in educational activities has been related to positive consequences, such as the reduction of psychosomatic diseases [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] , the increase of cognitive reserve 12,30 and the consequent improvement in quality of life 12 . In the same context, it was found that participation in the U3A-Unifesp/BS made it possible to review what the participants had studied in their youth, to acquire new knowledge, to express one's own ideas, to listen and to be heard, and to put into practice the acquired learning, in an exercise of what is conventionally called lifelong education 12,15,19,30 .…”