TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The elderly in Brazil: demographic transition, profile, and socioeconomic condition
JO  - Revista brasileira de estudos de população
A1  - Travassos, Guilherme Fonseca
A1  - Coelho, Alexandre Bragança
A1  - Arends-Kuenning, Mary Paula
SP  - e0129
EP  - e0129
VL  - 37
IS  - 
N2  - This paper presents a revision about the elderly population in Brazil, addressing aspects of the demographic transition as it relates to socio-economic conditions and some consequences and trends associated with policies affecting Brazil's elderly. Since a demographic transition has been occurring as a result of the aging of the Brazilian population, we identify a majority profile of Brazilian elderly as White women who live in urban areas in couple-without-children households, and possessing on average an education of 6.1 years and a smaller than minimum wage. We show that the vast majority of the elderly in Brazil receive some form of government income transfer that have a positive effect on poverty reduction in the segment. Finally, we show that there will be some future natural consequences and trends affecting the profile of the aging population, and that adjustments will need to be made by the government in terms of health and social security spending in order to mitigate the increased demands in these areas as the country's demographic change.     Keywords : Demographic transition; Elderly; Poverty.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0102-3098
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.20947/s0102-3098a0129
ID  - ref1
ER  -