Active Ageing

Com o fenômeno global do envelhecimento populacional, as atenções recaem na busca da melhoria de qualidade de vida para idosos. A Organização Mundial da Saúde [1] destaca aspectos como transporte, habitação, trabalho, proteção social, serviços de saúde e cuidados de longo prazo. Assim, o conceito Cohousing vem ao encontro do Envelhecimento Saudável, otimizando a capacidade funcional do idoso, permitindo-o realizar tarefas que lhe sejam importantes [1]. As Cohousings são comunidades intencionais surgidas em 1972 na Dinamarca [2], resgatando valores de comunidade e estilos de vida saudáveis. As Senior Cohousings, destinadas a maiores de 50 anos, favorecem o acesso a cuidados intensivos de saúde, autonomia e convivência social, representando diferentes significados e experiências nos campos físico, psicológico e social [3]. No Brasil, a internet vem auxiliando na informação e na organização social de grupos com afinidades e objetivos comuns [4]. De 2011 a 2013, o número de idosos brasileiros utilizando redes sociais, especialmente sites de relacionamento, aumentou 39,3% [5]. Esse perfil do “novo idoso” integra o conceito do Envelhecimento Ativo, um processo de otimização das oportunidades de saúde, participação e segurança. Estudos anteriores revelam traços do perfil dos moradores mais velhos das cohousings na Suécia [6] e identificam diretrizes projetuais através do processo participativo com futuros moradores no Brasil, porém sem foco etário [2]. O artigo objetiva traçar um perfil dos possíveis futuros usuários idosos dessas comunidades, pelo acompanhamento de postagens e comentários espontâneos em redes sociais e sites, buscando (i) identificar as razões que levariam adultos mais velhos a viver em cohousings no Brasil e (ii) avaliar a importância de fatores físicos, psicológicos e sociais nesta escolha. Para isso, realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica sobre cohousing, psicologia ambiental e idosos e análise de conteúdo [7] em sites com grupos brasileiros da rede social Facebook que tenham como tema cohousing e participantes idosos interessados em adotar este modo de habitação. A análise, feita a partir de palavras-chave, identifica aspectos do significado da casa: Psicológica, Social, Econômica, Material, Temporal e Tempo- Espaço [3]. Partindo dos resultados obtidos através da categorização das palavras chaves dentro das 6 dimensões analisadas conclui-se que existe uma maior ocorrência de intensões a respeito de moradias compartilhadas dentro de duas categorias em especial: material e psicológica. As expectativas por parte dos relatos dentro da dimensão psicológica são quase tão importantes quanto as expectativas na material. Essa busca por amparo psicológico em seu ambiente de moradia, pode ser creditada a perdas nas capacidades físicas, cognitivas e sociais, levando a um estreitamento da inserção social dos idosos e um consequente sentimento de abandono e solidão [8]. Também relevante, é a presença maior de depoimentos femininos, totalizando 90,47% dentre os coletados. Uma das hipóteses para essa ocorrência maior entre mulheres é a busca por afirmação de independência [6]. O perfil do novo idoso dentro do conceito de Envelhecimento Ativo, auxilia na compreensão do aumento da procura por moradias alternativas, especialmente pelas cohousing, pois a organização deste tipo de comunidade, reforça os valores buscados por este novo perfil, presentes nos depoimentos dos idosos analisados.

"The role of adult education is becoming increasingly important in the framework of policies to promote lifelong learning. Adult participation in training activities, however, is still rather low, despite the incentives and initiatives aimed at allowing all citizens access to education and training at all ages in their lives.
Participation tends to decrease concomitantly with increasing age: the major difficulty that elderly people have in learning is due to a deterioration of brain function, causing a progressive weakening of concentration, memory and mental flexibility. Today, advanced researches in neuroscience show that brain ageing may be reversible: the brain is plastic in all stages of life, and its maps can restructure themselves through learning experiences."
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As more evidence shows the capacity for growth
and fulfillment in the later years of life, the concept of
positive aging has value in promoting well-being and
enhancing the image of older adulthood. A paradigm
called Foray (4A) into Aging based on Awareness,
Attitude, Affiliation, and Activity demonstrates how this
new territory of positive aging can be realized.

In a context where the proportion of older people increases, research related to active aging and digital technologies has generated a wide debate and numerous investigations aiming to implement new public policies. Usually these are based more on “classic” gaps than on the so-called “grey divide”, which focuses on perceptions and attitudes. To capture this dimension, a questionnaire was designed on uses, learning, and ethical, motivational and attitudinal aspects. A field work was carried out aimed at the population of the Autonomous Community of Madrid between 65 and 80 years old, with quotas of age and sex, with a total of 785 cases, with a sampling error of 3.5% for a p=95%. The results indicate that, given the specific uses made by the elderly, they are marked by the ubiquity of the cell phone, which is basically used to communicate, to alleviate loneliness and to stay active. Thus, through a cluster analysis we have been able to elaborate a typology of users according to attit...

Grandparents play a vital role in providing childcare to families. Qualitative research and evidence from parents raise concerns that it is grandparents who are socioeconomically disadvantaged who provide grandchild care more regularly, perform more intensive tasks, and care out of financial necessity. However, no European studies have investigated these issues at population level. This study is based on grandparents aged 50+ who looked after grandchildren. Data are from wave 8 of the nationally representative English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2016/2017). We exploit newly collected information on frequency of grandchild care, activities, and reasons for care. Using multinomial regressions, we first examined the extent to which grandparents' socioeconomic characteristics (wealth and education) are associated with frequency of grandchild care. Second, using logistic regressions, we investigated whether wealth and education are associated with activities and reasons for grandchild care. Overall, grandparents from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds were more likely to provide more regular childcare. Similarly, grandparents in the lowest wealth quartile were more involved in hands-on activities (cooking, taking/collecting grandchildren to/from school), whereas highly educated grandparents were more likely to help grandchildren with homework. Finally, better-off grandparents were more likely to look after grandchildren to help parents and provide emotional support and less likely to report difficulty in refusing to provide care. Our findings show that grandparental childcare varies by socioeconomic status with more intensive childcare activities falling disproportionately on those with fewer resources, and this may act to exacerbate existing socioeconomic inequalities in later life.

This paper explores attitudes of staff, residents and family
members towards sexually diverse persons based on data from the
first national study of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand. The study
was a two-arm mixed-method cross-sectional study using a concurrent
triangulation design. The quantitative arm included the results
of 433 staff surveys related to knowledge, attitudes, behaviours
and beliefs about sexuality, intimacy and ageing. The qualitative
arm included interviews with 77 participants including staff,
residents and family members. This paper focuses only on sexual
diversity. A generational cultural effect was noted among all
respondents; younger participants expressed the most open and
accepting views of diversity. Residents were aware that they mostly
held the views of their generation; nonetheless they also looked to
staff to set the tone. Staff held varying views and felt that residents
would be less accepting; some staff felt the issue of intimate
relationships was not something they were willing to discuss at
intake. Facilities will want to establish policies about sexuality and
intimacy and communicate those policies and practices to staff,
residents and family members. Facilities may also wish to consider
specific educational events about sexual diversity for residents

This chapter focuses on introducing ideas of the creative ageing policy in the context of international and national strategies. It also overviews the best practices at regional and local levels. The chapter suggests that the roots of the creative ageing policy are derived mainly from the countries characterized by Anglo-Saxon capitalism and the liberal model of the welfare state. The chapter also shows that some important ideas, principles, and observations in this paradigm come from the countries of the European Union as well as the states of the Asia-Pacific region.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-53523-8_5

decline steadily in the elderly. Given that older people can preserve to some extent verbal and visual divergent thinking , these findings have important implications for active aging, that is, divergent thinking might be fostered in aging in order to prevent the cognitive decline.

While the gender aspects and gender differences have been studied in the Czech Republic with the results that roles, activities or experiences of ageing and older age as well as expectations are highly gendered, only limited attention was paid to men specifically. The aim of our project is to explore the contemporary situation of older people, who might be experiencing the situation of role overload (combining various roles in later life, such as paid work, home care etc.). The main research question was how are the structural aspects of changing roles (age of retirement, economic strains, work after retirement or providing care) incorporated, manifested, experienced and interpreted on the level of personal biographies. In this paper we would like to focus more particularly on the experiences of contemporary grandparenthood based on the 11 in-depth interviews with men and 21 interviews with woman. As we see the gender categories as relational and performative, we will focus not only on the self-perception of the grandparents themselves, but also on the ways they make gender meaningful in their narratives, how do they relate to other figures and partners and through which activities (or withdrawal from activities) is the gendered grandparental role performed on everyday level.

Эссе является реакцией на кризис, проявляющийся в теории и политике решения проблемы старения общества в европейских странах и в России. Около двадцати лет определяющими международными ориентирами считались концепция активного
старения и неолиберальная политика старения, сформулированные в Мадридском плане действий. В последние годы Россия интегрировала нормы и принципы Мадридского плана в свою национальную политику старения. Пандемия коронавирусной инфекции поставила под вопрос состоятельность основ концепции, представляющей процессы старения с позиций социального конструктивизма и сглаживающей границы между возрастными группами. Важнейшая связка всего неолиберального
проекта старения «активность – социальная включенность», которая призвана интегрировать пожилых в рынок труда и потребления и тем самым решать проблемы социального исключения пожилых и негативного образа их как обузы общества, в текущей ситуации оказывается нереализуема. Пандемия коронавирусной инфекции актуализировала возрастные границы и заставила вспомнить о физиологических особенностях стареющего организма. Борьба за инклюзию пожилых (временно) сменилась борьбой за их эксклюзию. В эссе разбираются теоретические подходы, лежащие в основе концепции активного старения в том варианте, в котором они были сформированы в западном контексте, и в версии, воспринятой в России. Кульминацией эссе является вопрос о том, сформирует ли коронакризис запрос на новую концепцию старения.

This article examines Chinese discourses on dressing the aging female body as a window into the tensions involved in the historical transformation of habitus in early post-Mao China. Drawing on Chinese media articles and ethnographic interviews conducted with Chinese women in their 40s-60s, the analysis compares depictions of new official ideals for older women’s dress that appeared in Chinese government-sponsored feminist mass media with ordinary older Chinese women’s personal sensibilities about dress. Assessing the applicability of dominant western feminist theories of gender, dress, and age, this article provides a historicized culture-specific application of practice theory, examining older women’s struggles with competing moral logics associated with past and present, and with official media versus personal experience. Overall, it documents experiences of ambivalence and compromise accompanying lifecycle adjustment in embodiment in the context of rapid social change.

This book chapter reviews current research in the area of digital game technology for rehabilitation, socialization, quality of life (QoL), design, and cognition. In recent years, there has been substantial progress in these areas. With technology advancement, there is the potential to facilitate aging in place, resulting in the continuation and maintenance of independent community-based living at varying stages of the life course. As technological developments improve, the concept of integrating digital game technology into the lives of an aging population is becoming more popular than ever before. However, during the implementation into the home, issues of physical space and technology integration may occur. There are many types of dwellings (apartments, houses, or bungalows) where older adults reside which contain a variety of fixtures and furnishings. Implementation of technology into these different dwellings may be difficult due to the added furniture already installed. This chapter initiates discussion within these areas and provides recommendations for future technology integration.

Research on the silver economy shows that products and services, which enhance personal autonomy and social cohesion, are common to successful enterprises that serve the needs of both older adults and their carers. Policymaking focuses on such interventions mainly from medical-pharmacological and hi-tech perspectives, such as advancements in pharmaceuticals, wearable technologies and e-health applications or robotics. Aspects of the built environment—that is, human-made surroundings—are rarely considered worth exploring. Yet, the fact that we have created buildings, as opposed to many advanced technologies that we are yet to invent, does not necessarily make them fit for purpose to the needs of our ageing population. This is the case in all forms and scales of the built environment, from houses to transportation networks. This article argues that policies and interventions for active and healthy ageing could benefit from a broader integration framework that would allow our built surroundings, of all scales and complexities, to become part of the solution. This could be achieved through new architectural and design paradigms that, contrary to prevailing architectural education and practice, operate in harmony with human perceptions and physiology, especially for vulnerable and older adults. By better understanding the consequences of the built environment on the well-being of the older population and acting on this we could first prevent the environment being disabling for vulnerable people and, second, hopefully enable increased autonomy through interventions.

Purpose – This paper seeks to outline the ways in which the desire to age well is inextricably linked to the domains of community and associational life; relies for its strength on intimate, soft, human contact in addition to more distant, cold, professional services; can call on an abundance of untapped, local-based care and, with greater intentionality by policymakers and practitioners, can lead to better physical and mental health outcomes for senior citizens. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a reflection piece based on the proven qualities of asset-based community development as a process for convening conversations in communities – from which the latent, caring capacities of individuals and associations are unleashed – allowing communities to build from the inside out. Communities define an ageing well agenda for their locale and implement that agenda according to their capacities. Findings – The paper finds that citizens and communities co-producing health outcomes will out-perform individuals reliant on professional medical services only. Practical implications – Communities have immense resources for health creation; tapping those resources leverages more health benefits than professional medical interventions alone. Originality/value – The paper challenges the omnipotent, medicalised, ''sickness'' model of healthcare and encourages the adoption of a model of healthcare in which citizens, older or otherwise, co-produce healthy lifestyles and health outcomes in their communities with the assistance of professionals. Providing better ambulances at the bottom of the cliff instead of fences at the top is a half-baked and wasteful endeavour for policymakers​ and practitioners alike; it resembles the cartoon world of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, not a blueprint for a complex, integrated and functional society. Nowhere along the life-course is the futility of such practices more apparent than in the third and fourth ages. This reflection piece, therefore, is concerned with the means by which, with older people in the lead, families, communities and agencies can co-create better fences before the precipice, and ensure that a good life is nurtured well before people reach the ''edge''. To ensure people may age well and age their own way, an approach that focuses on identifying the wide range of assets that could be used to support an older person is more fruitful than current approaches, exclusively concerned as they are, with the needs and deficiencies of an increasingly ageing population. Ageing well, across the life-course, in one's place, in a way that feels productive, surrounded by family, friends and neighbours, is everyone's business and is worthy of greater attention than is currently being afforded this simple, powerful ambition. The central crisis of modern welfare states is our neglect of the task of building hospitable, competent communities where young and old can age well and contribute their talents, skills and knowledge while receiving the contributions of others in kind. Software – gentle, intelligent, human power – is needed, not the hardware of machinery and ambulances.

Últimamente estamos hablando mucho la educación online, de sus beneficios, de sus virtudes, sin reparar que bajo esa educación online existe una influencia directa de los retrasos y adelantos que suceden en la web. A nivel de estudios académicos de E-learning se puede comprobar cómo la web 2.0 influencia al E-learning, creando así un E-learning 2.0 que comparte muchos de los aspectos de esta nueva versión de la web, como es el hecho de que los estudiantes puedan participar en la creación de su propio contenido a estudiar, creando contenidos para su curso que pueden realizar en tareas como webquest, por ejemplo, y publicándolo en una wiki del curso donde se desarrolla el temario de la asignatura.

L’Italia è un Paese anziano e che invecchia. Allo stesso tempo è un Paese scarsamente digitalizzato, con un numero di utenti Internet tra i più bassi d’Europa. Tutto ciò rende particolarmente urgente interrogarsi oggi sui fattori che influenzano l’adozione delle ICT da parte della popolazione italiana più anziana. Considerato tale contesto, la pubblicazione affronta il tema dell’invecchiamento attivo e del ruolo che le ICT hanno nella vita quotidiana degli anziani, a partire sia dalla letteratura attorno alle disuguaglianze (digitali) sia presentando due originali e recenti ricerche field e desk condotte dall’autore. Le ricerche fanno emergere il ruolo delle ICT sia nel contesto della vita quotidiana degli anziani, sia nella costruzione retorica e narrativa che ne fanno le istituzioni, in particolare rispetto al ruolo dei media digitali nei processi di invecchiamento attivo. Un’analisi dall’approccio innovativo che mette in luce i benefici ma anche i rischi che gli anziani percepiscono e corrono nell’uso delle tecnologie dell’informazione.

This report is a literature Review on the factors influencing employment in older age in the United Kingdom. It was written for the European Commission Joint Project Initiative Fast Track Activity, 'Understanding employment participation of older workers'.

The book provides evidence-based research and examples of existing
good practices on health-enabling, age-friendly neighbourhood
provision. These relate to the planning and design of outdoor spaces
and enabling opportunities for active, healthy ageing. Importantly, our
research prioritises the need to engage with older people when
creating neighbourhood environments that contribute to healthy
ageing in place.

The book and its supplementary toolkits touch on 3 main stages of agefriendly neighbourhood project — planning (environmental audit),
implementation (planning and design guidelines) and evaluation of
progress made (post-implementation review). We hope that these
materials will contribute to the ongoing discourse of how to (re)envision
urban neighbourhoods to enhance health and quality of life as people
age. Needless to say, they do not supersede but support existing
guidelines or regulations to improve everyday neighbourhood
environment for healthy ageing in place.

Co-creation with older people is a central tenet of our research on
ageing urbanism at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities,
Singapore University of Technology and Design. The Centre's Lee Li
Ming Programme in Ageing Urbanism conducts applied research on
built environment and health of ageing population, arguing for a more
integrated environmental, social and spatial approach to identify the
connection between the built environment, health and quality of life
that can inform the design for age-friendly neighbourhoods and
communities.

Through the advances in public health, most humans on earth are now assured to live to at least 60 years, regardless of their geographical location and socioeconomic status. Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population 60 years and above will be expected to increase from 900 million to 2.1 billion, while the average global life expectancy will be expected to increase by additional 10 years. Experts have ascribed this development as the most significant social transformation of the 21st century. However, although the world may have successfully learned how to live longer, it has not necessarily learned how to live healthier. In most situations, old age is associated with significant loss of physical and mental functionalities, increased risk of developing multiple diseases (including COVID-19), and reduced quality of life. This association has been described as the most important global public health challenge of the 21st century. The objective of this article is to investigate the scientific plausibility of slowing down the aging process and to identify evidence-based strategies of achieving healthy aging. A review of related online free-full articles written in the English language published from 2000 to 2021 was done. It was noticed that the pace and quality of aging can be significantly influenced by controlling the lifestyle determinants of aging. Although the science of healthy aging is still evolving, there is enough evidence for healthcare professionals to recommend evidence-based strategies for achieving healthy aging to the public and policymakers.

This briefing is for people working in housing, public health, care and support. Recognising a gap in information on this topic, Public Health England commissioned the Housing LIN (Learning and Improvement Network), the leading voice of expert advice and support in the field of housing, care and support services, to produce this briefing. Drawing on the Housing LIN's knowledge of the sector and with input from its network members, it looks at active ageing and the different aspects of the built environment that can promote and sustain it, with examples of good and emerging practice and resources for further information. It is intended for those working in social housing, local government, and the care and support sectors to understand their roles in developing and maintaining a built environment that contributes to active ageing.

The main feature of Croatian islands, in addition to their beautiful nature, is the fact that they are demographically and sociologically one of the most threatened areas affected by ageing. The ageing of the island population is the result of a long-term depopulation caused by the continuous emigration of the younger working-active population over the past hundred years, but also by the retirement return migration in the last thirty years. The most critical situation is on small islands where the majority of population is aged over 60 and this has a significant impact on all aspects of island life.

Kompendium na temat utrzymania aktywności zawodowej pracowników w wieku 50+ zostało opracowane w ramach projektu pt. STAY. Wsparcie aktywności zawodowej osób 50+ w przedsiębiorstwie. Zdrowy i zmotywowany pracownik – zadowolony pracodawca, współfinansowanego ze środków Unii Europejskiej. W kompendium odnajdą Państwo praktyczne przykłady rozwiązań z zakresu zarządzania wiekiem. Pokażemy również, jak projektować i wdrażać rozwiązania sprzyjające utrzymaniu w zatrudnieniu osób 50+ oraz jak czerpać korzyści z różnorodności wiekowej pracowników. To nowe spojrzenie
na zarządzanie pracownikami, sięganie do potencjału wszystkich
– niezalenie od ich wieku, przynosi bowiem wymierne korzyści, zarówno pracownikom, jak i przedsiębiorstwu.

Статията разглежда възможността за развитие на " Университет на третата възраст " в България. Авторът представя основните стретегически документи на страната, които имат пряка връзка с УТВ, и изследва феномена УТВ в световен мащаб. Накрая дискутира важните въпроси, които стоят пред реализацията на тази идея в България.
Ключови думи: учене през целия живот, образование за възрастни, университет на третата възраст, активно стареене, политики за възрастни

Abstract
The article explores the potential for development of " University of the third age " adult learning institutions in Bulgaria. The author presents the state's key strategic documents which are directly pertinent to UTA and researches the UTA phenomenon on a worldwide scale. Finally, he discusses the main questions which need to be considered in order to implement the UTA idea in Bulgaria.
Keywords: lifelong learning, adult education, university of the third age, active aging, policy on the elderly

The active ageing discourse and its relationship with the goal of promotion of human capabilities are discussed in this paper.
It is argued that the loss of certain kinds of personal capabilities (such as physical strength) is inevitable as a person grows old; this decline is exaggerated and generalized by different layers of social, economic and physical environments in which older people live. A combination of low personal capabilities and restricting environments can therefore hold
back older persons in taking advantage of opportunities available to them and/or in being resilient to threats that affect them. One of the key societal challenges is therefore to
facilitate age-friendly enabling environments to mitigate the adverse impact of unequal experiences of ageing. The evidence presented here provides a first snapshot of the differential
extent of enabling environments that predominate European Union countries. A key finding is that the Central and Eastern European countries exhibit the highest potential for improvements in enabling environments for active and healthy ageing.

Keywords: older people; human capabilities; active and healthy ageing; Europe

The article explores the binary cultural codes by which Canadian and American retirement migrants make sense of their ageing process in Cuenca, Ecuador. The article is based on 83 semi-structured qualitative interviews (11 of which are follow-up interviews), most conducted in the first half of the 2010s. I explore how notions of finite time and imaginaries of a fourth age of decline and death inform the migration decisions and imaginaries of Canadian and American retirement migrants. I argue that their desire to seek self-expansive, new experiences through migration and contact with cultural difference dialogues with an increasingly competitive neoliberal culture of ageing, that emphasizes success through activity, youthfulness and consumption. While there are certainly other ideals that help inform North American migration to Ecuador, I argue that these particular ideals illustrate how discourses of "active ageing" have been taken up "from below," by ageing North American adults, many of whom identify with the aspirations of policy and corporate discourses of activity and success, but who find themselves ageing into material conditions that preclude them. Migration to a lower-cost country, like Ecuador, helps them to experience these aspirations more positively, but may have uneven effects on lower-income workers and their ability to remain in place in the communities marketed for this type of migration. Keywords: active ageing; successful ageing; international retirement migration; cultures of ageing Experiences of travel and migration in the third age speak powerfully to cultural ideals of ageing, which are shifting after a generation of neoliberal restructuring. While retirement migration has been noted for some time, and international destinations-especially in Europe-have received considerable academic attention, the growing movement of North American retirees to destinations in Central and South America is relatively new. In part, this is the result of declining retirement security and growing inequality within the United States and Canada-though no doubt, it is also furthered by real estate and marketing companies, who have sought out "new frontiers" of accumulation in lower-cost regions. It hints at a new type of international retirement migration, linked to an unequal global political economy-one that articulates new styles of ageing and new regimes of migration and transnational mobility. The focus of this article is on the cultural codes that international retirement migrants in Ecuador use to make sense of their ageing process.

Współczesne starzenie się społeczeństw zaczyna mieć ogromne
konsekwencje dla codziennego funkcjonowania rodzin i podstaw ekonomicznych gospodarstw domowych, rynku pracy oraz finansów publicznych. Wraz wydłużaniem się wieku emerytalnego i kurczeniem się liczby miejsc pracy coraz więcej seniorów bywa zostawionych samych sobie, a nawet wręcz wykluczanych
z życia społecznego. Stąd przed rządami państw i przed całymi społecznościami pojawia się konieczność stworzenia warunków mających na celu społeczną integrację ludzi starych, zapewnienie im możliwie szerokiej oferty atrakcyjnych możliwości spędzania czasu wolnego i samorealizacji, ale też zapewnienia godnych świadczeń emerytalnych i dostępu do profesjonalnej opieki
zdrowotnej. Potrzeby ludzi starych, ich podejście do codzienności, relacje z otoczeniem, wykluczenie, formy aktywizacji, sytuacja życiowa, zdrowotna i ekonomiczna stały się więc w ostatnim czasie niezwykle aktualnym problemem badawczym dla badaczy z wielu dyscyplin naukowych. Zagadnieniu starości i starzenia poświęca się coraz więcej miejsca. Niniejsza publikacja wpisuje się w te trendy. Stanowi ona zbiór refleksji i wyników badań naukowych historyków, gerontologów, socjologów, pedagogów i psychologów.
Publikację zamyka tekst poświęcony międzynarodowemu projektowi Edu.Care, którego głównym celem było stworzenie nowego, mobilnego modelu dokształcania/ kształcenia opiekunów współczesnych seniorów.

Despite the considerable interest in the effects of Social Media (SM) as a catalyst for socio-economic-political change, there is a limited understanding of its role in developing countries. This research aims to analyze the nature of the usage of SM in developing countries by investigating the academic literature in this field. Five main sectors are identified and analyzed and an informative context is developed to identify the valuable directions for the future research.

Il tema dei ‘nuovi’ modi attivi dell’invecchiamento è stato affrontato in due prospettive: individuando le soluzioni proposte in sede istituzionale e scientifica negli ultimi anni e coinvolgendo un significativo numero di persone anziane impegnate nel volontariato organizzato.

Özet Sosyal belediyecilik anlayışıyla, belediyeler yerelde sosyal devletin adalet ve eşitliği sağlama işlevini yüklenmektedir. Sosyal belediyeciliğin yaşlılığa bakışı, yardım ve bakımdan aktif yaşlanma, yerinde yaşlanma çalışmalarına yönelmiştir. Bu çalışmada İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa ve Antalya büyükşehir belediyelerinin 2013 ve 2017 yılı faaliyet raporlarında yaşlı hizmetlerine ilişkin veriler değerlendirilmektedir. Araştırma yönetimi olarak içerik analizi kullanılmıştır. Faaliyet raporlarının yıllar itibari ile farklı formatta yazılması ve yıllar itibariyle hizmetlerin çeşitlenmesi sayısal değerlendirmesini güçleştirmiştir. Türkiye'de yaşlı nüfus artmasıyla sorunların çeşitlenmesi, belediyelerin hizmetlerine de yansımıştır. Raporlarda, dünyanın yaşlanan ülkelerinde olduğu gibi aktif ve yerinde yaşlanma politikalarının yerel uygulama örnekleri izlenmiştir. Ancak çalışmaların sistemli olmayışı, proje bazlı yürütülmesi, bir sonraki yıla aktarılamaması en önemli sorun olarak görülmüştür. Aktif ve yerinde yaşlanma politikaların merkezi yönetim tarafından yerelde uygulanması güç ve maliyetli olmasına karşın, merkezi yönetim odaklı tasarımı, yerelde belediyelerin deneyimlerini sürdürülebilir kılmamaktadır. Yaşlılara bulunduğu çevrede güvenli, erişilebilir hizmet tasarımının yerele özgü oluşturulması, merkezi yönetimin bakım yükünü de azaltacaktır.
Anahtar Kelime: Sosyal belediyecilik, Yaşlı hizmetleri, Aktif yaşlanma, Yerinde yaşlanma

In the sense of social municipality, municipalities undertake the function of providing justice and equality of the social state. The approach of social municipality to elderliness is directed towards active aging and aging in place from help and care services. In this study, data on elderly services are evaluated in 2013 and 2017 activity reports of metropolitan municipalities of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa and Antalya. Content analysis method was used in the research. Writing the annual reports in different formats and diversifying of services made difficult the
numeric comparisons. The diversification of the problems in the changing social structure with the increase of the elderly population is reflected in the services of the municipalities. In the reports, it is followed that the local practice examples of active aging and aging in place policies, as in the aging countries of the world. However, the lack of systematic studies, project-based execution and failure to transfer to the next year were seen as the most important problems. Although active aging and aging in place policies are difficult and costly to be implemented locally by the central government, the central government-oriented design does not make the local municipal experiences sustainable. Locally creating and implementing safe, accessible service design for the elderly people in their environment will also reduce the care burden of central government.
Key Words: Social municipality, Elderly services, Active aging, Aging inplace

Envejecer participando» es una mezcla de teoría y práctica, de acción y reflexión, de investigación y de intervención en un ámbito tan amplio y heterogéneo como el trabajo con personas mayores. Nace de un proyecto del grupo de Investigación en Gerontología Social y Educativa (GESED) de participación social. Dicho proyecto perseguía que los adultos mayores que habían hecho un largo y profundo recorrido por los programas universitarios para personas mayores se alejaran por un tiempo del ámbito de lo cotidiano para pasar a ser parte activa de la realidad que les rodea. El libro inicia su recorrido con un marco teórico de referencia sobre el envejecimiento activo y la participación social en el ámbito de las personas mayores, para pasar a desarrollar el marco de intervención del proyecto “Entre Mayores” que desde la perspectiva de la investigación-acción busca que los mayores ocupen un lugar activo y visible como ciudadanos socialmente comprometidos con la mejora de su entorno.

Özet İçinde yaşadığımız çevre bina iç mekanlarından kentsel dış mekanlara kadar zincirleme bir yapı göstermektedir. Yapılaşmış çevreye sağlıklı, güvenli ve kaliteli bir şekilde katılım yaşlılar için sosyal etkileşimin sürdürülebilmesi açısından büyük önem taşımaktadır. Bu yüzden, iyi planlanmış bir kent, bir yaşam çevresi ya da bir konut, yaşlılar için gündelik yaşamın fiziki mekândaki olumsuzluklarını azaltacak ya da yok edecek kadar özel, bununla birlikte rahat ve kolay erişilebilirliği ile potansiyel kullanıcılarının gereksinimlerini de karşılayacak kadar genel bir planlama özelliğine sahip olmalıdır. Bu çalışma, yaşlılık kavramını yaşam kalitesi, aktif yaşlanma, yaşam çevresi, yerinde yaşlanma ve yaşam çevresinin evrensel tasarımı açısından ele almaktadır. Abstract The environment we live in exhibits a chainlike structure starting from inner to the outer part of the built environment. It is very important for elders, healthy, safely and quality participation in to the built environment in terms of social interaction. Hence, a well-planned city, living environment or house should have planning characteristics that are " specific " in a way to lessen or terminate the difficulties of daily life for elder people and " generic " in a way to meet the needs of potential users through its comfort and ease of access.This study is based discussed the aeging concept in terms of life quality, active aeging, living environment and universal design of the this environment.

iv ÖNSÖZ Bilim ve teknolojideki gelişmeler, kırdan-kente göç, kentleşmenin getirdiği değişimler, üretim ilişkileri ve neoliberal politikalar yaşlılığın bir sorun olarak görülmesine yol açmış, aile kurumundaki ve toplumsal yapıdaki değişimlerden en çok etkilenen grup yaşlılar olmuştur. Demografik yaşlanma süreci; endüstrileşmiş toplumlarda yönetim, bilim ve teknoloji politikalarının geleceğini yönlendiren önemli bir olgudur. 2023 yılında nüfusumuzun %10,2'si yaşlı bireylerden oluşması ve Türkiye'nin "İleri Yaşlı Toplum" kategorisine dahil olması beklenmektedir. Türkiye Güney Kore'den sonra dünyanın en hızlı yaşlanan ikinci ülkesidir. Bu bakımdan ülkemizin, uygun bakım ve finans modellerini bulmak, yerinde ve aktif yaşlanmayı desteklemeye yönelik sosyal politikaları üretmek ve yaşama geçirmek için önünde çok fazla zaman yoktur. Durum böyle olunca, sosyal, ekonomik, psikolojik ve fizyolojik sorunların gittikçe ağırlaşması nedeniyle yaşlılık konusunun zaman yitirmeden ele alınması ve bu konuda ulusal politikalar oluşturulması beklenmektedir. Özellikle ileri yaştaki nüfusun artması yaşlı bakımını öncelikli bir sorun olarak gündeme getirmektedir.

More often than not, mainstream media perspectives on tattoos and ageing are negative. What will you do about your tattoos when you’re 80? Won't you regret those tattoos when you’re older? These narratives typically focus on the process of decline, the deterioration of the human canvas (i.e. sagging skin), and the loss of definition and colour of one’s tattoos over a lifetime. But rather than seeing tattooing and tattoos as an age related impairment doomed by the natural processes of the ageing body, I think a more positive perspective is warranted – and that is the focus of this contribution. After all, tattooed skin is a personal record documenting memories of our lives and our life stories. Tattoos are marks of accomplishment and commitment, and as we age they continue to distinguish who we are as individuals. Our tattoos belong to us and no one else. Tattoos are a personal possession that cannot be taken away. In short, we come to know ourselves, our bodies, and our worlds through the tattoos we wear, and they are defining for who we are as human beings no matter how old we may be. [*This chapter is excerpted from the exhibition catalogue "GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Ageing," running 10.26.2018-01.09.2019 at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.]

A colorful presentation slideshow on what the author calls "career tapering" - with a link to the Zoom recording on YouTube. Whether citizens, sojourners, or immigrants, most employed residents of Japan and many other countries will be unable or unwilling to retire. The natural desire to choose the terms of transitions, however, runs into customary age limits in the case of higher education in Japan, around 65 for full-time and 70 to 75 for part-time employment . Combined with stereotypical dismissiveness towards older people, a sudden loss of status can be vertiginous. Yet there is a great demand for the services that older professionals can perform in education, society, and academia internationally. This presentation illustrates how language teaching duties can be gradually decreased and improved in quality, while the teacher remains at least as active outside of institutions. Many suggestions are offered on how to have a better quality of life than ever, enjoying more free time to create and curate. Lifelong learning can accord with lifelong interests.