Abstract

KESKE, Henrique  and  SANTOS, Everton-Rodrigo. Decent aging as a fundamental right of human life. Rev. Bioética y Derecho [online]. 2019, n.45, pp.163-178. ISSN 1886-5887.

The article focuses on a critical examination of the fifteen years of the Statute of the Elderly, with the purpose of discussing the new protection of the elderly population in Brazil, as well as addressing the social problem of aging with dignity, as a right guaranteed in our legal system. Therefore, the theoretical approach is based on the new paradigm brought by the Statute, based on the dignity of the human person of the elderly. In the same sense, to arrive at the concretization of such legislative advance in our social reality, we must try to provide a re-signification of the roles of the elderly in our society; together with the ways in which old age is socially perceived.

Keywords : Statute of the Aged; process of aging; dignity of the human person; Human Rights; society.

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