O PROTAGONISMO DOS IDOSOS NO CENTRO DE CONVIVÊNCIA DO IDOSO: UM ESTUDO DA IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DAS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS NO MUNICÍPIO DE PRUDENTÓPOLIS-PR.

Abstract

Human aging manifests itself as a worldwide henomenon with wide repercussions, which demonstrates a new design population, and with this, directly affects the social, political and economic conditions in Brazil. Justified by the growing number of older people in contemporary society there is a need for further investigation, which encompass not only in the natural sciences, but also encompassing the social sciences and humanities. This research proposal aims to identify the challenges and progress in the implementation process of the policy senior care, based on the theoretical knowledge about the establishment of these policies, the period after the adoption of the Statute of the Elderly as reassuring those rights. From this historical landmark, is an analysis based on authors researching this topic, in order to ascertain the ways in which this service has occurred. The challenges and advances in care for the elderly, will be identified from a search of the activities developed by the Senior Center in the city of Prudentópolis-Pr. Still, it is noteworthy that for the realization of this work we conducted a field study with a qualitative approach, which occurred primarily through three stages: the first was that dedicated on the review of literature on this subject, description, analysis and interpretation of the structures of health care to the elderly, the second step made references to his own field research, from a questionnaire to elderly patrons of the Senior Center, which listed thirty-eight (38) and elderly subjects in this study. It should be noted that the Municipal Center for the Elderly is a specific space in the old city of Prudentópolis This was followed by the third step, which refers to the analysis of data obtained from the questionnaires and the observations made in the said Center, noting that the observations were started in 2012, when the space was being structured. In short, it is concluded that there are policies that ensure access of the elderly in educational spaces, however, there are few actions that ensure the realization of these rights.