This article discusses advances and contradictions of some proposed actions by Elder's Bill of Rights. This Bill was approved in 2003. Its main objective is to regulate the rights of older people in multiple spheres and dimensions. It gathers in a single document many of the bills and policies...

The paper analyses the participation of Brazilian elderly in the labour market from 1977 to 1998. This analysis is different from traditional labour market analysis as the main focus is not with the pressure that elderly can put on the labour market. The objective is to look at their...

This paper gives a demographic approach to the matter of the Brazilian demographic ageing. It discusses the relationship between ageing and dependence. It also tries to evaluate if to be elderly today, 1998, it is different of being elderly in the recent paste, 1981. The data utilized are from...