The objective of the paper is to analyze the impact of the social security policy on the well-being of elderly women and their families. The importance of studying elderly women refers to their increasing proportion on the total of elderly people. This almost tripled in last the sixty years as...

This paper describes the main characteristics of "reverse mortgage" and it also assesses the main aspects related to its implementation in Brazil. A reverse mortgage is an equity release product that allows old people to convert their housing asset into an income flow, without the requirement of...