This paper aimed to address the abandonment of the elderly in long-term care facilities for the elderly and family awareness. It was found that old age is a very complex phase for those who are in this process, in which the family should always be present, caring and showing affection. However, there are families that do not have the conditions or time to perform the proper attention that the elderly person deserves and needs. Thus, this study showed that the LTCIs that appear as a place of refuge for the elderly, but sometimes the family members abandon their elderly at these institutions, which culminates in damage to this social class. In this sense, the figure of the Social Worker emerges, in which he, armed with his ethical conduct and based on the laws that protect the elderly, has the function of sensitizing the family so that the abandonment of the elderly decreases through awareness. Thus, this paper was able to show the work of the Social Worker in order to strengthen the bonds between the elderly abandoned in an LSIE and their relatives, in which it has been demonstrated that this fact has an effective impact on both the elderly and their families, the family. For this, the deductive method was used, since the reasoning goes from the general to the specific. The research was bibliographic, because it allows the researcher to perform the coverage of numerous phenomena, which is indispensable.
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