DEPENDENCY, ELDERLY AND FAMILIES. FROM PRINCIPLES TO INTERVENTIONS

Abstract

The tendency of the social policies to priorize the elderly care in the community and their incidence in the informal support activities, reinforce the interest to understand the dependence elderly care in the community and go deeply into those interventions wich allows the improvement of their quality of life. This paper presents different views and intervention lines related to the infformal care in dependence situations, remarking some questions wich demands a deeper view just to make the interventions be adequated to the complexity of the situations they treat.