O idoso provedor familiar no Município de Estância-SE

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze through interviews the perception of the elderly about their condition as the main family provider and the difficulties they face, as well as to know how this situation is affecting their lives and also whether they are being financially deprived. With this discussing the contexts that generate this responsibility in exercising the role of family head after retirement, taking into account the fact that the children are already raised and supposedly independent . In this context, to verify if the transformations in the contemporary society end up affecting the personal relations, as well as the function of each individual in the family. Statistics have indicated that the elderly population has increased, as well as the life expectancy and with it, the difficulties faced by the elderly person, justifying, therefore, the interest to carry out the present study. The methodology adopted consists of a, qualitative and quantitative approach of explanatory nature through a field and bibliographical research. The instrumental used was the interview with pre-elaborated script having, as subjects, elderly retirees in the municipality of Estância. Ten elderly residents of the Albano Franco neighborhood - the research locus - were interviewed. The data collected were analyzed based on the defined categories, which address concepts that refer to: the situation of the elderly as provider of the family. The results pointed out that in view of the current situation, the retirement of the elderly is often the only subsistence income of the family, thus making it the provider of this group.