Claudio Lovato Son

I live in the neighborhood that has the largest number of elderly people in Rio de Janeiro. In Copacabana, the official statistics, 17% of the population has more than 60 years. In Porto Alegre, where the neighborhood is preferred by the staff of old age? I do not know. But I think the Good End is likely to be, at least among the leaders in the ranking. And what that means? Everything. Or it should. Our elderly need protection. Heavy traffic and unruly pedestrians impatient, irregular pavement, obstacles of all kinds on the sidewalks, accessibility difficulties, not to mention, of course, assaults and robberies, transform our streets in high-risk corridors for those who no longer has the force physical need to move with ease and firmness in the urban jungle. Each loose stone on the sidewalk is a hazard to an elderly person. Here close to home for some time, you suffer a fracture in the ankle because he had stepped on a loose stone in Portuguese tour. The power pubic (especially the city, but also the duties which fall to them, state and federal) need to make things easier for our veterans, must be more attentive, and that includes the policing of stray stone that needs strengthening. We owe it to them by civility and gratitude.