Aging in Colombia

Using data from statistical sources and official reports, we propose a critical approach to aging in Colombia, specifically from the point of view of public policy in progress or in planning. Our main hypothesis is that these measures refuse comprehensive treatment of the ageing in terms of needs an...

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Autores principales: SANTOS PÉREZ, María Lourdes; Universidad de Salamanca, VALENCIA OLIVERO, Nelcy Yoly; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Salamanca 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/alh2015716181
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-011&d=article11842oai
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Sumario:Using data from statistical sources and official reports, we propose a critical approach to aging in Colombia, specifically from the point of view of public policy in progress or in planning. Our main hypothesis is that these measures refuse comprehensive treatment of the ageing in terms of needs and rights promoting a pure welfare system which, instead, contributes to reinforce a collective imagination of a dependent and impoverished old age, with «fatal» consequences that sustain and reproduce the socioeconomic system.