Envelhecimento da população brasileira: Conceito, Legislação e Políticas Públicas em destaque o programa Cidade Madura do Governo Estadual da Paraíba

Abstract

This article describes the problem of population aging characterized as a worldwide phenomenon. In this context, it was sought to identify the governmental efforts, in the scope of the State of Paraíba, that prioritize public policies for the elderly - people over 60 years old - according to IBGE, Census, 2010, is a growing population whose tendency is to increase even more in the coming decades. The fundamental rights inherent to the elderly, health, education, citizenship, leisure and housing have been verified, if they are being offered by the State and if they comply with the legislation applied to the elderly, such as the Constitution of 1988, National Policy of the Elderly and the Statute of the Elderly, which deal with the National Policies of care for the elderly in Brazil. It was identified the institutionalization of the Madura City Program, by the Government of the State of Paraíba, implemented in 2014, whose purpose is to build condominiums equipped with basic infrastructure and adapted to house elderly people. It was concluded that there are efforts at the Federal, State and Municipal levels, but the difficulties faced by the government in putting public policies in practice to promote the well-being and dignity of the elderly have been verified. Paraíba State Government built and delivered several condominiums to house elderly people.