Cronologização da vida, ageísmo e exclusão : o direito ao envelhecimento e a democracia deliberativa

Abstract

Democracy and ageing are the two research guidelines developed throughout this work. In a society that naturally ages, it is essential to know, structure and protect a right that guarantees to the different forms of aging the sufficient dignity to exercise autonomy, freedom and self-determination in all spheres of action and participation in political and social life at old age. At the same time, the older person is inserted in sociopolitical contexts that interfere in the way in which this right to ageing will be created, implemented and maintained. From the analysis of deliberative democracy and the chronologization of life, this research seeks to find the best way through the democratic labyrinth of the right to ageing. Firstly, a research was carried out on legal-philosophical aspects of the critical theory of human rights and the democratic theory of recognition, combined, in the second part of this thesis, with socio-legal and political aspects of old age and aging, allowing, in this way, to achieve, in the third chapter, a qualitative and exploratory analysis made by the intertwining between a deliberative democracy of recognition of individualities and the right to aging as a complex dynamic of protection of the multiple ways of aging. Therefore, the method of bibliographic and documentary research was used, combined with legislative and public policy analysis through exploratory and qualitative research. By understanding deliberative democracy as a condition and consequence of the realization of the right to aging, it is concluded that the intersubjectivity of conscious and emancipated individuals depends on the inclusion of older people in all sectors of society, which, in turn, will also need a deliberative democratic context opened and permeable to their needs, interests and eventual vulnerabilities. It is in the constructive and affirmative dialogue of aging and the confrontation of ageism that new assumptions are discovered for a democracy not subverted by the invisibility of the elderly.