Condições e modo de vida das pessoas idosas em situação de rua

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Mattos, Carine Magalhães Zanchi de
• Orientador(a): Grossi, Patrícia Krieger
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gerontologia Biomédica
• Departamento: Escola de Medicina
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Pessoas em Situação de Rua; Assistência a Idosos; Idoso; Políticas Públicas; Serviços de Saúde para Idosos
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/8060

The conditions and way of life of street people deserve to be studied due to the complexity of phenomena such as the demographic transition in the street, the difficulty of social reintegration, structural unemployment, social deconstruction and the devaluation of Individual, setting up this layer as who lives in extreme misery, unlinked from social production, and who is dedicated to marginal activities (FERNANDES; RAIZER; BRÊTAS, 2007). This study will contribute to a gap in the area of knowledge, because studies on elderly people in the street are incipient. This is a descriptive and qualitative study whose general objective is to analyze the conditions, way of life and the repercussions of aging for people over sixty years of age who live in a street situation in Porto Alegre. Nineteen elderly people were selected on the street, by simple random sampling and theoretical closure by theoretical saturation, interviewed in the FASC reception services and also on the streets in the period from 2015 to 2017, respecting the ethical precepts of Resolution 466/12. Discursive textual analysis was performed as proposed by Roque Moraes. The majority of those surveyed are between 60 and 69 years old, are black or brown, have incomplete elementary education, work or do not have income, stay in the streets and are in this condition for a period between 1 and 5 years, due to family disagreements and difficult financial conditions. They declare being on the streets for lack of opportunities and access to fundamental rights. Survival strategies include the use of sheltered places, the use of shelter (shelter, shelter...), the link with acquaintances who donate clothes and food, informal work and, in the case of women, the relationship with a life partner. For people on the street, quality of life is having access to what they do not have, such as health, food, family / caretaker / wife and a "little house" to live in. They express the structural violence and intersectionality experienced since birth, the neglect of the State in the lack of access to a good birth, a school, followed by the experience of child labor, non-access to formal work, with gender markers for being a woman, ethnic because it is black, territory for being on the street, social for having low or no income and so on. Institutional violence is expressed in the looks and care they receive or through neglect, and gender violence is so common that it significantly reduces the number of women on the street, so they look for other ways of surviving. They report that they would have quality of life if they had another story, with access to their rights as a home, work, health, bonds, food and water. The discourses of daily suffering and violations also affect them directly. While they experience deprivation of rights, they believe that there is no quality except the faith that sustains them. The study concluded that it is important to create spaces to discuss these issues at the national level, in the academy and in the practice of public policies, guaranteeing the basic rights and giving a voice so that this population can express their reality of life, without prejudice or stigmas common to common sense. Providing fairness of basic rights for the entire population, as well as the national structural preparation to meet this new demand for street elderly, is essential for health promotion and active aging for all, including those living on the margins of society.