Population aging and the Nursing commitment - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Since the end of the 1970s Brazil has imposed administrative and political tools that define who are elderly. The National Policy for Senior Citizens (NPSC) states that elderly people are the ones who are 60 years old and above, according to the Law 8,842 on January 4th, 1994 and governed by the Decree 1948 on July 3rd, 1996 with the Senior Citizens’ Statue [Estatuto do Idoso], Law 10,741 on October 1st, 2003. Both laws assure and govern the elderly people’s rights in the Brazilian social policies(–).
It is known that chronological age is not an accurate marker to state changes in the human aging as it is multifactorial and there are differences related to the health state, participation and dependence levels among people with the same age, but to access public policies, is primordial an age definition.
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Since the end of the 1970s Brazil has imposed administrative and political tools that define who are elderly. The National Policy for Senior Citizens (NPSC) states that elderly people are the ones who are 60 years old and above, according to the Law 8,842 on January 4th, 1994 and governed by the Decree 1948 on July 3rd, 1996 with the Senior Citizens’ Statue [Estatuto do Idoso], Law 10,741 on October 1st, 2003. Both laws assure and govern the elderly people’s rights in the Brazilian social policies(-).
It is known that chronological age is not an accurate marker to state changes in the human aging as it is multifactorial and there are differences related to the health state, participation and dependence levels among people with the same age, but to access public policies, is primordial an age definition.
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