Estatuto do idoso e sua interface com a promoção da saúde: uma reflexão

Abstract

The goal is to reflect on the Statute of the Elderly (Brazilian Law 10,741, 1/10/2003) and the promotion of health. The frame that guided this study was the five strategies for health promotion proposed by the World Health Organization: public healthy policies; favorable environments to health; community action; personal skills; reorganization of health services already offered. We did a theoretical reflection, starting with a short history of policies concerning the elderly population and electing, for analysis, the Statute of the Elderly, the act who consolidated the actions already previously proposed. There are indications towards the promotion of health to the elderly. The policy makers should be concerned to provide the means which enable the achievement of the objectives of the Statute, expressed in article nr.1 – To adjust the rights ensured to the elderly. The concern, therefore, should be in adapting the institutions to make available to the elderly which is guaranteed to them by the Statute.