O processo de constituição e funcionamento de um Conselho Municipal dos Direitos do Idoso: o caso do município de Maringá-PR

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Simone
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4122
• topic: Public policies; Aging; Social control; Boards of rights; Políticas públicas; Envelhecimento; Controle social; Conselhos de direito; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

Population aging is a process that has an impact on social relations and public policy. The Boards of Rights of the Elderly appear on the national scene as an institutional innovation, to exercise democratic control between State and society regarding the elderly. This study seeks to look at the process of formation and operation of the Municipal Board of the Rights of the Elderly (CMDI), in Maringá, State of Paraná, Brazil. To this end, we conducted interviews with advisers, which were complemented by the analysis of documents of the CDMI of Maringá. This CDMI did not result from a broad social movement around elderly issue. It arose from technicians of the Social Services Department who actively sought the interface with social movement organizations. In turn, the Board seems to be an important field of practice, in which both representatives of social movements and government will constitute meanings for what is to counsel. Thus, there are separate meanings. On one hand, technical experts from various departments range from the idea that they must defend the positions of their departments and the municipal administration, and that by becoming members, should be guided by the rights of the elderly. On the other, participants who, as advisors, discover the potential of participation in discussions of projects and proposals for the elderly. The research also allowed to seize some tensions within the Board, between the still indispensable technical and administrative support and policy of the Secretariat of Social Assistance and the dream of greater autonomy in relation to the Executive, or as the tension between a view of policy for the elderly as a matter of welfare or as a matter of right. Finally, the research allows us to recognize a great potential in this dynamic of the Board, stressing however, that this trend owes much to the decisive support of the municipal management.