A institucionalização da velhice no brasil: um quadro sócio histórico de pobreza, silêncio e exclusão social

Abstract

This paper addresses the interventional actions in long-stay institution for the elderly, Oscar José Pithan, product realization demands through compulsory curricular internship experience of the Social Service course held at the institution. It addresses the institutional history and the development of its activities, the faith based charity, to charitable actions standardized in specific legislation built during the second half of the twentieth century, coming to the present day. In this regard, it highlights the importance of the Constitution of 1988, which includes the guarantee of social rights. The institutional environment considerations are still held on the inclusion of social work, professional work of the social worker, and his relationship with the managers of the institution. It explains about the seizure of the object of intervention, elderly people with weakened or ruptured emotional ties and the approach to the critical dialectical method to better understand the social construction of old age institutionalization. It sought as instruments, to interview the elderly, home visits to families, and to mediate between those involved, given the complexity of relationships established over a long period of time between seniors and their families. In this sense it can be seen that poverty and social exclusion were constant presence since childhood, and that individuals and families have lived the edge of state protection. The work in childhood, which removes the possibility of school, poor education, low-paid, and traveling in adulthood, are also addressed as crucial to breaking affective bonds.