Políticas públicas de informação no Brasil para pessoas idosas: à luz de Beauvoir e Silva Sobrinho

Abstract

The investigation is characterized by a study with a qualitative approach with a descriptive objective that aims to reflect on public information policies for the “elderly person” in Brazil through theoretical and explanatory analyses. Therefore, the investigation will be based on the quadripolar method proposed by Bruyne, Herman and Schotheete in 1974, through the construction of four fundamental poles for a theoretical study focused on the thoughts of Simone de Beauvoir and Helson Flávio da Silva Sobrinho: the epistemological, theoretical, technical and morphological. The epistemological pole will be guided by the construction of the scientific object, definition of the investigation problem, enabling the discursive parameters and the identification of paradigms and scientific criteria that will guide the research. The theoretical pole will be guided by the postulation of laws and regulations, formulation of hypotheses, articulation of frames of reference between Beauvoir and Silva Sobrinho, defining what is understood as an "elderly person" and the need for specific public policies, as well as building a framework theoretical-conceptual about targeted information policies, in the scope of Information Science The technical pole will describe the process of collection, organization and treatment of research data, gauging the reflections of the base authors chosen for this investigation. Finally, the morphological pole will formalize the research results and will present essential elements for the construction of public information policies for the elderly, which can be the object of reflection both by Information Science and by society in general, so that the claims produced fought can enter the governmental agendas. In turn, the research will also be constituted by the bibliographic and documentary study carried out in the Information Science databases, where scientific articles aimed at the elderly in Brazil will be mined and such policies will be analyzed in the documents, available on the websites of the Brazilian government, aimed at the elderly, identifying the conceptual elements of public information policies for the elderly in Brazil. The results identified that in Brazil there are six public documents aimed at the elderly. They address their rights, access to care and comprehensive health and their principles of humanization, but present a dispersed approach to the right to information. Regarding scientific production (QUALIS/CAPES and BENANCIB), after applying the exclusion and inclusion criteria, only 14 (fourteen) remained to be analyzed, evidencing the incipient theoretical reflection, a reflection of the capitalist sociability that denotes the elderly person condition of social and political invisibility, due to its unproductivity in society. It is concluded, then, that the stimulus to scientific production is essential, especially in the area of Information Science, which has the potential to develop relevant questions in the production of Public Information Policies aimed at the elderly, providing subsidies to the public power. in the sense of building effective actions