The context and the residential center for the elderly in Colombia and Spain. The social enterprise one alternative for welfare

Abstract

The protection to the older people or elderly adults (EA) it has turned in a state policy, there is an increased number of registers due to the violation of these rights. Due to this it is important to be informed about social politics that are still being used and to the types of populations it is applied to, referring to Spain and Colombia in social and legal aspects. Also, identity the spaces where an elderly adults finds an alternative to live and share their elderly age is the geriatric homes, residencies or centers of attention to the older, as also the role that the solidarities companies are playing in the offer and demand in a market where the target of the elderly adults, agree with their necessities in this contexts generates a bigger demand of products and specialized professionals with social sense. This tissue of relations in favor the well-being toward elderly adults s carries to presenting the partial results of an investigation realized in homes or residencies to elderly adults situated in Ávila, Madrid and Santiago de Cali.