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 gives a demographic approach to the matter of the Brazilian demographic ageing. It discusses the relationship between ageing and dependence. It also tries to evaluate if to be elderly today, 1998, it is different of being elderly in the recent paste, 1981. The data utilized are from...

The paper analyses the participation of Brazilian elderly in the labour market from 1977 to 1998. This analysis is different from traditional labour market analysis as the main focus is not with the pressure that elderly can put on the labour market. The objective is to look at their...