<b>(Re) meaning the solidarity in the old age: beyond consanguineous ties</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v34i1.16182
Abstract
The aging of the brazilian population has been making substantial changes in multiple dimensions of life, and particularly in familiar and extra-familiar relationships. The accelerated social changes impact directly on familiar configurations and produce discontinuities of affection and solidarity. To the extent that aging is established, the elderly reconstruct the familiar relationships under new bases, fit to the new realities, but without accommodations, and advance in the construction and diversification of new ties and solidarities, carefully tailoring the internal differences between children, grandchildren, daughters-in-law and sons-in-law, and designing for others spaces what it means lost: fondness, affection, autonomy, attention, respect. Extrapolating from consanguineous families, the elderly seek the support groups, which exercise fundamental functions not only by replacing, in many cases, the absence of family members already in place, but for filling spaces that the society, in general, has left empty for those ages.
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