To a profile of aged neglected

Abstract

The term aging is often used to describe the morphofunctional changes that occur throughout the human life after sexual maturation and that progressively compromise the responsiveness of individuals to environmental stress and maintain homeostasis. In the condition of people in advanced aging and life fragile, are found many elderly walkers-by roads and streets of Brazilian cities. Defined here as the wanderer who lives outside the home, in a very simple routine and miserable up, away from family and social relations closer, apart from the sense of a so-called normal life. The lack of this sense of life, which is allied to the prejudice of society, have been factors leading to stigmatization of these abandoned old people, causing them to believe that the street is the only place left for them to live. The objective of this study was to investigate the reasons that lead to becoming an elderly hiker, having been held in shelters in the cities of the Paraíba Valley, State of São Paulo. The universe of this experiment were some homeless seniors, regardless of gender. Identified in this study, elderly individuals found not by their real names, but through the name given to precious stones. They reported profession, although they live alone, wandering the streets of urban areas cited. As for health problems, older respondents reported a pathology here, yet neither did treatment or visit a doctor regularly, as they lack documents. The reports of these walkers, the elderly show a survival condition weakened, compromised by becoming too vulnerable, susceptible to external aggression, the more it sharpens their family and social exclusion. Finally, it appears that they still dream of return home and resume life with their own families.