Conselho Municipal do Idoso: um espaço contraditório na efetivação do controle social e participação dos idosos

Abstract

This Labor Completion of course provides a theoretical and practical reflection of the Social Assistance Policy in regard to senior care in the Brazilian context within public policies , emphasizing the rights of the Council as an area of social participation and control, in view consolidation of the social rights of the elderly population. By Groups of the Elderly, emphasizes the importance of these collective spaces in citizenship education in order to encourage participation and autonomy of older people in the quest for social recognition as subjects of rights. Based on the Federal Constitution of 1988, emphasizes the responsibility of the State in the consolidation of social rights, as well as ensuring democratic participation in the consolidation of these, where councils are characterized as important spaces for collective organization defending the rights. At this point sought to emphasize the importance of professional social worker intervention, where guided by ethical principles of the profession seeks to develop initiatives for social emancipation of individuals , surpassing assistance practices, promoting the expansion of social rights and social role of the subject order to transform reality denial of rights in the expansion and consolidation of citizenship.