Acessa PI - tecnologia assistiva para avaliação de acessibilidade para pessoas idosas em equipamentos sociais públicos de saúde

Abstract

This research proposal for development and innovation falls within the field of Information and Communication Technologies approaches, which seeks to propose, as an assistive technology, the assessment of accessibility of elderly people in public social health facilities, thus promoting citizenship and social inclusion of these individuals. . People aged 65 or over already represent more than 10% of the Brazilian population and, by 2060, the elderly are expected to make up 25.5% of the total, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) from 2018. This forecast reinforces the Importance of developing this research, which aims to promote the community participation of elderly people, through an App, thus contributing to this demographic change in our country. Based on Clauss Mueller's theory of blocked communication, which highlights that in modern societies, blocked, limited or conditioned access by subjects to blocked means, opportunities and communication practices limits and conditions the experience of citizenship by these subjects. Using social research methodologies, community access technologies and experimental research and development (R&D), we aim to develop systematized assessment protocols for accessibility in public social health facilities, to be applied voluntarily, free of charge, collaboratively and collectively, by users and through the ACESSA PI smartphone application, with the results of each equipment and accessibility profile made available to the public. What is expected from the research is to contribute to the citizenship of elderly people, given the pseudo-accessibility present in public spaces, evaluating, consulting information, making the results available to public agents responsible for public social health facilities and inspection of accessibility and rights of elderly people. Developing, developing and making social technology and its technological resources for assessing accessibility in public social health facilities for elderly people available free of charge is the main objective of this research project.