A atuação do assistente social em uma Unidade de Saúde da Família : aspectos sobre a saúde do idoso

Abstract

This research presents a discussion about the performance of the social worker at the Family Health Unit (USF), in the city of Aracaju/SE, with the elderly who receive disposable diapers. This is a qualitative bibliographical and documentary research, based on the method of historical-dialectical materialism. It was found that the aging process in Brazil has intensified in recent decades, which in turn demands attention and care in public health services. The social worker, enrolled in the sociotechnical division of labor and inserted in the various sociooccupational spaces of health policy, lives daily with the repercussions of the counter-reform of the Brazilian state, which advances in the processes of privatization, precariousness and targeting, which in turn impacts access to the health rights of the elderly from the perspective of completeness and universality.