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Pretende-se com este artigo conhecer e sistematizar os factores que condicionam a sustentabilidade económica e financeira das instituições de apoio a pessoas idosas e o ponto de vista dos seus dirigentes e entidades locais. A metodologia utilizada assentou na aplicação de dois questionários, um a 97 associados de instituições para pessoas idosas, outro a 138 utentes dessas instituições e entrevistados os seus dirigentes e autoridades locais. No trabalho desenvolvido constatou-se que existe um conjunto alargado de factores de sustentabilidade no domínio económico e financeiro, ressaltando os seguintes: 1) comparticipação financeira do Estado; 2) comparticipação financeira dos utentes; 3) quotização dos associados; 4) abertura a outros públicos com maior capacidade financeira;5) organização e gestão das instituições; 6) prudência no endividamento.
This article aims to discover and systematise the factors that condition the economic and financial sustainability factors of support institutions for elderly people and the point of view of the institutions’ managers and local bodies. This method used wasbased on two questionnaires, one for 97 members of institutions for elderly people and another for 138 users of those institutions, and interviews with the institutions’ managers and local authorities. The work carried out revealed that there is a wide range of sustainability factors in the economic and financial domain, with emphasis on the following: 1) the state’s financial contribution; 2) the users’ financial contribution; 3) members’ payments; 4) openness to other groups with greater financial capacity; 5) organisation and management of institutions; 6) caution regarding indebtedness.
This article aims to discover and systematise the factors that condition the economic and financial sustainability factors of support institutions for elderly people and the point of view of the institutions’ managers and local bodies. This method used wasbased on two questionnaires, one for 97 members of institutions for elderly people and another for 138 users of those institutions, and interviews with the institutions’ managers and local authorities. The work carried out revealed that there is a wide range of sustainability factors in the economic and financial domain, with emphasis on the following: 1) the state’s financial contribution; 2) the users’ financial contribution; 3) members’ payments; 4) openness to other groups with greater financial capacity; 5) organisation and management of institutions; 6) caution regarding indebtedness.
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Instituições apoio idosos Factores sustentabilidade Support institutions forelderly people Sustainability factors