A apreensão do processo de trabalho do serviço social em uma instituição de longa permanência para idosos.

Abstract

The present work is the result of the experience of curricular internship, required, lived in a long stay institution for the Elderly. It was made, this way, a reflection from the Critical Historical Materialism, compreenhending the aging process from the perspective of the Social Work and Social Gerontology. In this way through the various faces of these people, currently elderly and living in a long way institution, inside a totalizing social context, it was also attempted to make a specific study to be able to contextualize this reality, through the means of a historical recovery on the social protection system in Brazil, being an institution that, over many years has as main objective the institutional hosting service for the protection of the elderly, in the city of Santa Maria, RS. It was intended to present the dynamics of the work of social work with this subject, approaching the skills of the Social Worker, their challenges, limits and possibilities in order to work in this social-occupational space. It was developed the intervention project, identifying the object based on the theory that establishes a critical reading of reality, articulating the working process with the code of ethics and the instruments as a way of intervening before the expressions of the social matters.