Saúde e envelhecimento: o serviço social frente o acesso dos idosos ao sistema único de saúde por meio do pronto socorro do Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria

Abstract

This work is the result of mandatory supervised internship experience in Social Work II, held at the Emergency Unit Adult University Hospital of Santa Maria. During the stage, which covered the period March / 2015 and June / 2015, we tried to learn, observe and intervene with targeting the professional practice of social work in health care in the hospital setting, the scene of the emergency care with the elderly who access the Unified Health System through adult Emergency Unit the University Hospital of Santa Maria by identifying certain profile. Government social policies have resulted in higher quality of life, reflecting the aging Brazilian population, in contrast, the country finds mentors birth rates and fertility, which challenges the life quality of stay for this population in the future will represent a higher proportion. Health is everyone's right and duty of the state, a social right, but it faces enormous challenges, not meeting the precepts of the Brazilian Federal Constitution (1988) in its entirety. The role and challenge for social assistance in the midst of this context is to support social frameworks of patients in emergency situations and / or emergencies that have implicated situation with your health problem, identify the expressions of the social question incidents and work with this demand in the sense that the patient's membership favors its clinical picture of health, always with a view to enabling rights.