The citizen participation of the older adult in communal councils

Abstract

This article shows from the experience of the writer supported by documentary review, how the citizen participation of the elderly in community councils serves as a catalyst for the execution of projects and learning of the procedures, norms and laws inherent to public policies such as an alternative for institutional and democratic changes, being the alternative carried out by the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; hence, the Organic Law of Citizen Participation and Popular Power. It is worth mentioning that older adults have received a welcome in community councils and organized communities (grandparents' club, choirs, passive gymnastics, walks, among others), generating an increase in their participation in public affairs that were previously vetoed. Indeed, the elderly are considered as work experience, academic training, empirical knowledge in an activity linked to their citizen participation in community councils and vice versa.