Old age in the Websites of Regional Centers of Social Policy. Population problems and social policy Cover Image

Starość na stronach internetowych Regionalnych Ośrodków Polityki Społecznej. Problemy ludnościowe a polityka społeczna
Old age in the Websites of Regional Centers of Social Policy. Population problems and social policy

Author(s): Lucjan Miś, Katarzyna Ornacka, Marek Szepski
Subject(s): Family and social welfare
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: old age; aging; Internet; social policy; information and communication technologies

Summary/Abstract: The number of old people in Poland has significantly increased for last decade. Among others, the causes of this growth are: lengthening of human life and emigration of young people abroad. Population changes has been becoming a problem, which meet reaction from side of state social policy institutions, such as government, ministries and local authorities. In this paper, we present scope of usage of information and communication technologies by old people (aft er their sixty year of age). We show also offers of Regional Centers of Social Policy addressed to elderly people. In the last years, a few regional centers off ered information and some assistance programs targeted to seniors. In addition, the off ers were usually formulated in bureaucratic language, very unfriendly to potential customers.

  • Issue Year: 18/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 187-201
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish