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The contemporary Education to the Old Age in the Context of Relations with Environment, Family and Society
The contemporary Education to the Old Age in the Context of Relations with Environment, Family and Society

Author(s): Elżbieta Markiewicz, Ireneusz Skawina
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Sociology, Educational Psychology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: pedagogical; education; contemporary; old age; family

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary education to the old age in the context of relations with the environment, the family and society constitutes the need, due to fully relevant conditions of the changing nature of reality, to open up to the problems connected with old age - their implied connotations and social consequences. That is, on one side, an attempt to more precisely define the functioning of the system of the elderly in the family and an indication of the role of the contemporary system of family and social support in relation to the living conditions and opportunities for seniors. On the other, it is an effort to underline the subject of organizing leisure activities for older people and highlighting the role of various institutions, organizations and Universities of the Third Age in the lives of these people. This bipolarity in an compact attempt to present the subject seems, in the opinion of its author, to be consistent with a contained reflection on the quality of life for seniors. Therefore, the importance of belonging to a group has been emphasized, the need for self-development and the objectives which the elder individual set itself. As a consequence of the problematic subject consistency, the effort was undertaken to present the psychological aspect of the relations with the environment and its impact on the life satisfaction of older people.

  • Issue Year: 5/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 189-203
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English