Abstract

BEJARANO-RONCANCIO, Jhon Jairo; ARDILA-GUZMAN, Leidy Shirley  and  MONTANO-RODRIGUEZ, Angélica. A social approach to food, nutrition and aging from an analysis of rights. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2014, vol.62, suppl.1, pp.73-79. ISSN 0120-0011.  https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v62n3sup.40956.

Demographic asymmetrical changes in the world's population, related to the magnitude of aging, have led to urgent healthcare measures being taken, especially since the formulation of public policy aimed at the welfare of the elderly. This situation worsens in Latin-American countries where poverty is rife and there is inequality regarding access to basic social rights, including the right to food, because many of the elderly are vulnerable in such circumstances. Some suffer malnutrition and/or chronic and functional diseases, live in poverty or lack the privilege of receiving a state grant or pension whilst others have been abandoned by their families, are socially excluded or do not come within the bounds of comprehensive assistance programmes, leading to this community being undignified, having a poor quality of life and suffering nutritional deficiencies. Such situations should provide support for the formulation of policy aimed at protecting this population group's social fragility.

Keywords : Aged; Feeding; Aging; Aged Rights.

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