Atenção à saúde mental de idosas em situação de encarceramento prisional: estudo de caso

Abstract

The present research aims at exploring the related aspects of health care for incarcerated elderly women. It is pointed out the challenges to be faced, from the perspective of the various interfaces and their complexities, in the approach to health care for elderly women deprived of their liberty. The regulatory aspects related to the topic are discussed in light of the Statute of the Elderly, the National Health Plan in the Penitentiary System (PNSSP) and the Criminal Execution Law (LEP). It is important to highlight the importance of joint work between legislatures and science in the field of gerontology in order to better create the conditions that best fit the health care of the incarcerated elderly, given their limited condition in multiple dimensions, such as Biological, psychological, sociological and cultural, leading them to the process known as prison. In order to illustrate what the researched literature has shown, a case study was drawn up in line with the reality of countless elderly people in Brazil who suffer from drama of depression in prison. For a better analysis of the case study, the genogram instruments were used, for a mapping of the participant's family relationships, as well as her life-line analysis. Through the analysis of the genogram of the case studied, the context of the biopsychosocial relations was traced, which in some way led the participant to involvement with illicit practices (drug trafficking), as well as triggering their depressive symptoms in the prison environment .