Violência contra a pessoa idosa: uma questão (in)visível?

Abstract

Population aging is considered a positive phenomenon because it attests to the effectiveness of public health policies. However, during times of fiscal austerity, an increase in social inequality affecting the population over 60 years old is observed, as in a capitalist society there is no room for workers who have lost the ability to sell their labor power, exacerbating problems such as violence. The interest in this object of study arose from concerns about the role of Social Work in addressing violence against the elderly. The general objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between the State and society in the face of violence against the elderly and the forms of violence suffered. In this direction, the specific objectives were: to discuss the aging process in the context of capitalist sociability, to analyze the violence inherent in social construction through mechanisms for the protection of the elderly, and to discuss how the Social Worker can act to minimize this problem through their role in CREAS. To achieve the objectives, both a bibliographic review and a documentary analysis of normative frameworks such as the Federal Constitution/1988 and the Elderly Statute were carried out. Despite the advances, it is observed in practice that the elderly are unaware of their rights and families are unaware of their duties, in addition to the absence of public and financial policies by the State that prioritize the preparation of professionals for elderly care.