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...

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between ageing and dependence and the role of social policies in Brazil according to rural and urban areas. In other words, is being elderly in rural areas different from being elderly in urban areas? And if it is found to be so,...

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...