Abstract

MELEIRO, Maria Luiza de Andrade Picanço  and  PEREIRA, Claudia de Moraes Martins. COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ELDERLY IN MANAUS/AMAZONAS/BRAZIL. Revista Internacional CONSINTER de Direito [online]. 2023, n.17, pp.325-340.  Epub Feb 28, 2024. ISSN 2183-6396.  https://doi.org/10.19135/revista.consinter.00017.14.

The article aims to analyze the numbers of notifications of violence against the elderly registered in Manaus/AM, in the search to identify advances and challenges, as well as the elements that interfere in the process of coping with this violence, in the period from 2012 to 2021, in the light of the Law No. 12,461/11. This is a descriptive study, structured from quantitative and qualitative research. The methods and procedures used are document analysis and field research, with the use of interviews with 16 managers of the main institutions that are part of the network of protection and confrontation of violence against the elderly in Manaus. More than ten years after the publication of Law 12,461, which made notifications mandatory in case of suspicion or confirmation of violence against the elderly, we question its effective compliance by the institutions that make up the network of protection, as well as how such notifications have occurred and their outcome. It was based on the hypothesis that, after the law was enacted, there would be a substantial increase in the number of notifications made in the city of Manaus/Amazonas. The research concludes that the notifications made are far below what public policies recommend, mainly due to the lack of knowledge of their obligation and importance, or fear of doing so presented by professionals from the various institutions that make up the aforementioned protection network, pointing to a worrying scenario that requires urgent intervention.

Keywords : Compulsory Notification; Elderly; Public Policies..

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