Políticas Públicas e Evelhecimento Populacional no Interior do Paraná: Guarapuava em Análise

Abstract

This study was proposed considering the demographic transition process that began in Brazil in the second half of the last century and one of its main consequences: the aging of the Brazilian population. The objective of this study was to investigate the existence and implementation of public policies specifically aimed at the elderly population at the municipal level, using the municipality of Guarapuava, located in the interior of the state of Paraná, as a spatial focus. To develop the research, bibliographic studies on the subject, analyses of statistical data, and empirical research were carried out, the latter developed through interviews that were conducted with municipal public actors, responsible for various departments in the municipality studied. It was possible to observe during the development of the work that public policies exist and that they are being put into practice. However, such policies are still incipient and are in the initial phase of development.