Processo de envelhecimento da população de Juiz de Fora – MG: condições de vida e segregação sócio - espacial

Abstract

The central proposal of this study is to know the profile of the aged population in Juiz de Fora - MG, privileging the social-economic characteristics, the space distribution and the access to the urban equipment and social resources of the city, having as analysis axle the process of social-space segregation. For the accomplishment of this work, it was used the microdata, of Juiz de Fora, the Demographic Census of 2000, carried through for the IBGE, and documents produced for the City Hall of Juiz de Fora, between 1998 and 2006, referring to the process of urban planning of the city. We believe that this study it will be able to not only base the formularization of public politics that guarantee the rights of the aged ones, but also of those directed for the deepening of the democracy and the magnifying of the Juiz de Fora’s population citizenship.