Políticas de atenção ao idoso e democratização do acesso à cidadania social: a experiência de Goiânia, 2003-2010

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate and analyze the implications produced by the policies to the elderly in Goiânia-GO, after the implementation process of the Elderly, in view of universal access to social goods and services, such as citizenship rights. The unit of analysis used were two support groups, located in neighborhoods that have the highest number of elderly among its residents, Jardim America (central district) and the New World Garden (suburb). The criterion set for the calculation of the research sample was based on data gathered by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, 2000) and the Department of Planning Seplan (GOIAS, 2005) on the elderly population goianiense. In the context of research subjects were older than the employees, managers of policies for the elderly in Goiânia. He took up Marx's dialectical method as a reference for understanding the specific social reality experienced by this segment. Based on Netto (2009), it is understood that the "theoretical knowledge is knowledge of the object as it is itself, in its real existence and effective, regardless of the wishes, aspirations and representations of the researcher" (p .673). Adopted as the legal and juridical horizon-formal, Law No. 8.842/94, which regulates the National Elderly Policy (NCP) and Law No. 10.741/2003, that provides for the Elderly (EI). The bibliographic and documentary showed studies on population growth, reduction in the age structure and fertility rates in Goiania in Brazil and its implications for the everyday life of the elderly population. Also revealed that despite social and legal advances in recent years, the elderly resident in the city of Goiania not feel adequately protected legally. There are weaknesses in the system of social protection to the elderly in the county, which are due mainly to the inefficiency of public policy, the disagreements between different governmental and non governmental organizations in protecting the rights of the elderly population, as well as the low effectiveness of the exercise of democratic control by way of direct participation.