Social Protection for Elderly. Social Exclusion and Poverty

Petru Popescu

No 3, Working papers from Ecological University of Bucharest, Department of Economics

Abstract: In the present article I propose to address some of the problems of social exclusion of older people in the context of the social protection of this category of people is insufficiently treated, and especially solved by the Romanian state. Financial and material resources allocated to social protection of older people in Romania are insufficient and the government has applied a strategy to eliminate or at least mitigate the appearance of social exclusion of older people who appear in the current context as a real burden to society through the material problems, health and social inclusion. Elderly people have serious problems and the Romanian company offers very few alternatives for solving multiple problems that seniors face. It is painful that after a lifetime of work for the benefit of society, the same society that the person you refuse to give you elderly and social exclusion. Financial assistance almost nonexistent, the social and the lack of social inclusion efforts make the elderly a segment that is one unattractive to society and the phenomenon tends to increase in the next period when the ratio between the active and the retired will seriously damage the detriment of persons elderly. I conducted a study of specific case in which I presented the social situation of five persons, elderly, each with conditions somewhat different in terms of living standards and material conditions and financial capabilities and we have identified the individual needs of the sample investigated for solving their problems and improving their social protection. Without creating a viable system of social protection for elderly and I think this is urgency in Romanian society will witness further marginalize a growing group of people with needs increasing but resources allocated in sharp decline. It is inadmissible to develop strategies for solving social assistance to the elderly and to see that is increasingly less to solve this problem.

Keywords: strategy of social protection of the elderly; financial policies of social assistance; social exclusion and inclusion methods in older people; raising living standards and material and financial resources allocated to the elderly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 H55 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2016-04
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Published in Ecology of XXI Century: Proceedings of the International Conference of the Ecological University of Bucharest: EUB-2016, Bucharest, Romania, ISBN: 978-606-26-0624-4, April 2016, pages 37-51

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