Grupo de convivência de idosos: desafios do assistente social na inclusão social desse segmento

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Work brings a theoretical and practical Social Policy, emphasizing assistance to the elderly through the Group Living, pointing boundaries and possibilities of intervention of the Social Worker along this segment, in order to provide its inclusion social. The Welfare long developed so charitable and welfare in the private meeting the needs of socially vulnerable population. The Federal Constitution of 1988, however, brings a new paradigm for policy, recognizing it as the right people in need and the duty of the State, enabling the participation of the population in democratic consolidation. In 1993 approves the Organic Law of Social Assistance which is legally regulatory policy, then the National Policy of Social Welfare and also the 2004 Basic Operational Norm of the Unified Social Welfare 2005 which will enhance the care of a decentralized policy for municipalities, seeking to meet territorial demands. Have the expansion of the Reference Centers of Social Assistance in the areas of vulnerability and social risk, providing basic social protection services, which will enlarge the area of Social Work. In the Reference Centers of Social Welfare will act in this professional perspective of the political empowerment of users enabling the expansion of social rights. The groups developed in this space will be important interventional strategies, and through the ethical commitment to its users, develop actions that go beyond the immediacy and welfare, promoting the role of the subject. For this to make use of various instruments as well as intersectoral coordination with other public policies, seeking to accommodate all of the subjects. Referring to the elderly is of fundamental importance, the group space, to ensure access to their rights as well as enlighten them of these, as provided in the National Aging and the Elderly, making them participants in the process of consolidation, including the socially. For aging in a capitalist society causes the elderly to experience a process of exclusion due to no longer "useful" to the capital, which ends up being played by society, family and even by public policy. The social worker, therefore, it through the critical eye of reality, establish mediations that enable to transform reality by developing activities that promote the social value of the elderly.