Violência provocada por cuidadores de idosos em Teresina-PI: estudo de caso.

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Siqueira, Adriana Castelo Branco de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Ciências Jurídicas; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Jurídicas; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: idoso; violência; dignidade; direitos fundamentais; direitos humanos; elderly; violence; dignity; fundamental rights; human rights; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8646

The scientific and technological advances as well as other conditioning factors such as health care and education, have led to the improvement in people's quality of life around the world, which is visibly noticeable by the significant reduction in infant birth rate, mortality, and consequent growth of the elderly population. The aging population has been subject of attention by the government and the society in general. In Brazil, the number of elderly people doubled in the last twenty years. However, along with the growth of elderly population, in a directly proportional way, raised the rate of violence against this segment of the population, under the most varied forms (physical, psychological, economic or institutional). This thesis expresses a constitutional approach to the principle of human dignity, the issue of human and fundamental rights, aiming to demonstrate that older people should be treated with equal respect and recognized as a constitutional subject endowed with dignity. Furthermore, it discusses the phenomenon of violence against the elderly from psycho-social factors that can influence the behavior of elderly caregivers (such as stress, drug use and alcohol abuse, social isolation) and legal (such as the certainty of impunity that can lead to domestic violence. Therefore, the phenomenon of violence was analyzed under theoretical basis that envisage to explain it, the performance of the institutions in charge of defending the elderly, as well as through the data collection carried out by observing the police reports in the Specialized Police Station for the Elderly Teresina-Piauí. Data analysis could identify a feminization of the elderly and the caregiver, namely, older women are victimized more than men, and the most prevalent degree of kinship as the aggressor is the daughter-parent relation. However, in some crimes (injury and threat), men cause more physical harm. On the other hand, the use of drugs and alcohol were prevalent factors to trigger agents of violence by male caregivers. At the end, a case of violence against the elderly from the perspective of a safety network for the elderly and the legal field was analyzed in order to demonstrate how discriminatory meanings against the elderly shared within society can migrate from the surroundings into the interior of the legal field, affecting its operation and the consequent production of a judicial decision.