O Poder Judiciário e a prioridade processual do idoso no Brasil: respostas e contradições no âmbito do município de Sousa-PB.

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to outline the reasons for the high workload of the judiciary, its specific inefficiency and consequent impact on the elderly 's life, justified by the philosophical and juridical viewpoint as a subject of protection by the State. Considering this, for the research, the inductive method, using the doctrine and the literature, was used as well as disposing of approach of national normative devices that sediment the universal values of the optics and the proceeding towards the elderly, considering, of course, the current Brazilian situation and its prospectus. This work will be composed of three main blocks: Firstly, the whole philosophical / historical basis will be put in order to construct a plural and concise view of the elderly person's perception / situation in history. In a second moment, the principal role of the procedural disciplines, and specifically of the Statute of the Elderly (Law 10.741), besides a numerical composition of the procedural situation of Brazil, will be demonstrated, justifying the treatment that should be taken with the elderly; In a third moment, the procedural reality applied to the elderly will be explained, pointing out the structural and legal problems that result in maintaining the current status, in general, and specifically in the municipality of Sousa - PB.