SOCIAL WORK AND THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION OF THE ELDERLY IN ANGOLA

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the interloculation between health and social protection in which Social Work operates, and its repercussions on the processes of access to the basic rights of the elderly in Angola. It is a debate that results from bibiographical and documentary research, guided by Marx's social theory. The results demonstrate that health and social protection policies and related services are expressions of the validity of contemporary bourgeois society, whose reflections in Angola were realized from the second half of the twentieth century, in the process of implantation of dependent capitalism. In this context, marked by contradictions and challenges, it is considered that Social Work is a profession that contributes to the struggle for the quality of access to their rights of the elderly.