| dc.description.abstract | The Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been one of the biggest
challenges in the contemporary scenario. The calamity situation imposed by the
pandemic demands in-depth studies, especially on the impacts on the lives of
families in situations of social vulnerability and its relationship with the expressions of
the social issue. In this segment, it is important to understand how the elderly public,
more susceptible to the contagion and aggravations of the virus, suffered the impacts
of the pandemic. This Course Completion Work aims to verify the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic on the elderly public, in a situation of social vulnerability. To this
end, a theoretical-bibliographic research was carried out on the pandemic and its
impacts on the living conditions of the elderly in situations of social vulnerability,
having as a criterion the constitutive dimensions of the concept of poverty. In order to
establish a link between theory and reality, an experience report of the Mandatory
Curricular Internship was also carried out, developed with elderly people who are
assisted by the Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance in the city of
Santa Maria. The experience report contributes not only to the description, but also
and, above all, to the understanding and interpretation of the phenomena. As a
result, the elderly public, in a situation of social vulnerability, suffered more intensely
from the social and economic impacts of the pandemic period. This population
segment experienced greater impoverishment, often having to live with food
insecurity, obstacles and restrictions in access to health, difficulty or lack of access to
technologies, fundamental for communication, especially in the period of social
distancing. In many homes, the elderly had to share their benefe with family
members, as they were the only source of family income. They also suffered from
negligence, abandonment and loneliness by family members or the government,
numerous times, they were ill or with worsening of pre-existing diseases and were
denied medical or hospital support. Other elderly people who were still working
needed to stop working, as they belonged to the risk group for COVID-19. It is
concluded that the population segment of the elderly, invisible and excluded before
civil society and the State, experienced an even greater aggravation of the
expressions of the social issue, in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. | |
