PROGRAMA DE PREPARAÇÃO PARA APOSENTADORIA: UM DESAFIO PARA O SERVIÇO SOCIAL.

Abstract

The process of preparing for retirement may be associated to the loss of social position assigned to the subject, who is perceived by contemporary society as young, healthy and productive. This process is also related to active aging stated in public policies directed to the elderly, which is offering public and private organizations activities and programs that facilitate workers, in pre-retirement, a less painful breakup with labor activity and, therefore, a healthy aging. Therefore, the present study aims mainly to analyze the preparation programs developed by existing retirement SIASS units in the state of Goiás and the educational role they can play in the lives of employees on retirement process. For a deeper understanding of this study, specific objectives were established: to identify whether or not there is PPA at SIASS units, UFG, INSS and the Ministry of Health, as well as to investigate if the units that offer the PPA have the human resources, materials and budget for the development of educational activities for retirement; to evaluate the effects of these programs on health and quality of life of the employees; to raise the social, economic, cultural and psychological factors that lead them not to want to retire, and also to analyze the role of Social Service as a profession that intervenes in social issues. This research is based on the dialectical method, which allows the use of analytical categories: totality, historicity, contradiction. The explanatory categories are: aging, health, quality of life, identity and autonomy, among others. The research is exploratory involving a quanti-quali analysis. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were used. Both instruments contain issues related to retirement, work and Retirement Preparation Programs. In this study, there are 45 participants, 22 from UFG, 16 from IFG and 07 from IF Goiano, of which 60% are women, besides a human resources manager. The data collected in the interviews were transcribed and data from questionnaires were coded and grouped, according to the categories, as defined, and then analyzed. The main results indicate a possible relationship between retirement and active aging, health and quality of life. Similarly, it identifies that economic factors are the main indications for employees not to seek retirement. The challenges of Social Service are based on the ideology of rejuvenation and life extension, which perpetrates in contemporary society the need for the individual to remain in activity. This requires the Social Assistant higher qualification to intervene in social issues arising from the retirement process.