Quando a dimensão do cuidado transcende para a agressão: violência contra o idoso no seio familiar na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present research work seeks to study the violence practiced against the elderly in the family, by its closest members who live or not in the same space domestic. Based on this formulation, we sought to analyze how the dimension of the care goes beyond family aggression with regard to the elderly in Maputo. The study was carried out at the Centro Dia Idosos de Hulene, in the city of Maputo. To the execution of the research was used as a method of data collection, the bibliographic consultation on the phenomenon of intrafamily violence in the world in general, particularly in Mozambique. For the collection of data in the research field, the application of semi-structured interviews and direct observation. The semi-structured interviews were administered in a sample composed of 13 (thirteen) people, 2 of whom are employees of the CDIH, 1 is the neighborhood secretary and 10 are elderly victims of violence within the family practiced by your closest relatives. The study showed that the dependence of the elderly in relation to their caregivers is one of the main reasons that propitiates the occurrence of all types of violence. As a result, aging ends up causing greater dependence, and in turn, unbalances relational exchanges with your caregiver, where he feels greater power and less reward, which triggers in situations of violence, characterized specifically by acts of negligence in the provision of care to elderly, which basically translates into: physical aggression, threats, defamation, not feeding, not providing assistance in the disease, in accusations of witchcraft and expulsion from their own homes. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)