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Decent housing for the elder: a right won by the Public Ministry with the Term of Conduct Adjustment - TCA

Grant number: 14/23182-0
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Start date: July 01, 2015
End date: December 31, 2016
Field of knowledge:Applied Social Sciences - Law - Public Law
Principal Investigator:Luzia Cristina Antoniossi Monteiro
Grantee:Nayara Mendes Silva
Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Population aging brings awareness of old age as a social issue that asks for great emphasis on questions that go beyond the health sector. In the legal field, the elder made impressive achievements in the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the constitutional legislation such as the National Policy for the Elderly and the Elderly Statute. Highlighting the need for modernization, expansion and humanization of services aimed at elder care institutions. Accordingly, the Public Ministry is an ally, and through the Term of Adjustment of Conduct (TAC) can perform improvements that minimize the problems related to spaces of care to the elderly. This study aims to verify compliance with the TAC, concerning the safety improvement in an exclusive condominium for seniors "Recanto Feliz" in Araraquara-SP. It's a documentary exploratory study, descriptive and observational, with conducting fortnightly visits, glimpsing the due compliance of the TAC, the decrease in risks regarding the health and safety of elderly, respecting the principles of law to decent housing. (AU)

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