A violência contra a pessoa idosa: um olhar sobre a violência estrutural-social em distintos cenários de vida

Abstract

"Violence against the elderly: a look at the social - structural violence in different scenarios of life " is a doctoral thesis in which I try to understand and interpret the lives of elderly people immersed in poverty , seeking meanings for the various types social - structural violence , in different scenarios : a) my doctor's office ; b) Outpatient Service of Elderly Care of the Hospital Dr. Carlos Macieira of the State of Maranhão; c) Health clinic in the village Embratel / extension project UFMA (Federal University of Maranhão). The theme was contextualised through the contribution of different authors, in heterogeneous thoughts, aiming to enhance the discussions about the current, complex, multidimensional phenomena of the analytic categories that guide the research: aging, poverty, violence, social-structural violence. I used qualitative research, in that I propose to understand dimensions of daily life, the routine of being "poor old man" in the contemporary world. Adopted as a methodological procedures for collecting the testimony of the "elderly men, elderly women", the focus group technique as a way to understand the assumptions; besides "observation record " and " daily listening". About 4 or 5 meetings were held in each of the focus groups, each group consisting from 10 to 12 seniors, from 56 to 94 years old, of both genders, with a predominance of elderly widowed women living with family. I defined four themes of social-structural violence: a) the violence of myths and prejudices; b) the violence of disrespect; c) violence of the relations of care, and d) the violence of the structure of the scenario of poverty itself. Although being present in the structure of Capital, violence, in its various forms, is still not perceived as a matter of character and public health, to which typifications of social and structural violence are not envisioned by being in the midst of the iceberg of conflictual and violent relations in the daily elderly men and elderly women in contemporary society.