MARGINALIZACIJA OSOBA TREĆE ŽIVOTNE DOBI
MARGINALIZATION OF THE THIRD AGE

Summary/Abstract: Person in the “third-age” represent a sensitive social group which is often associated with the negative connotations associated with incorrect beliefs about elderly age. Though age is only a chronological thing, in society (especially among young people) there is still some insensitivity to this “third-age” social group which affects the quality of their life. Within the current culture of hyper consumerism and celebration of so called The cult of youth, the marginalization of the third age is mostly reflected in everyday life mostly because of the lack of opportunities for closer intergenerational contact. In the focus of this work is aging, and the position of the elderly in society.. Paper describes a positive example in the practice on the example of the implementation of the course "Third Age Pedagogy" in the university study program of the Department of Pedagogy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka - the only one in the Republic of Croatia who deals with this issue. In the last part of the paper, through the qualitative methodology of the semi-structured interview of the course leader Ph.D. Anita Zovko and Ph.D. Jasminka Zloković describe their experiences and challenges in implementing the course which has in the meantime become a mechanism for intergenerational connectivity in the local community. Through the implementation of the study program, significant progress has been made in sensitizing the young to the third age and making a step forward in terms of the preventive effect of marginalization of the third-age people.

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