Aging and dependence: challenges to be faced

Abstract

The aging of the world-wide population and the question of the dependency are two important challenges that the countries will have to face in this century. These require greater economic and social exigencies and need policies and suitable programs so that the social security can continue taking care of the necessities of the people with 65 years and more as well as those than suffer of some type of dependency. The World-wide Organization of the Health (the WHO) sustains that all the countries and mainly the developing need to formulate plans and to act, because the measures to help that the people of more age continue active are than a luxury more, a priority. This bibliographical study must by objective show the importance of the social security in Brazil, in the forms of retirement, pension and benefits. For as much it will make use of secondary dices harvested through the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistic – IBGE (2002).

Key words – Aging. Dependency. Security. Policy retirement.