Construindo pontes: o Serviço Social e o acesso ao direito à convivência familiar de idosas institucionalizadas

Abstract

The fast aging process of the population is an unprecedented phenomenon in Brazil. This change affects several areas of the brazilian society and relationship within the family. The Institutions for long stay for elderly become, in many cases one of the few or only alternative for many elderlies and their families. Thus, the present paper is a theoretical practical traineeship Report fruit of Social Work in a long-stay institution for the elderly in the city of Santa Maria, where it was executed a Project of Intervention with families and elderlies institutionalized addressing the issue of family acquaintanceship as a right and duty of the institution to promote them.