Family Environment as a Place to Provide Old Age‐oriented Education
Family Environment as a Place to Provide Old Age‐oriented Education

Summary/Abstract: In the article the authors address an issue of old age oriented education and focus on the meaning of family for the elderly of the 21st century. Contemporary times,with fast and fluid changes as their characteristic features, have an impact on the functioningof this basic social unit. The transformations taking place within a contemporary family setup imply changes in terms of the relations, bonds and status of the elderly.The authors of the article attempt to define the role of contemporary seniors within thefamily and the tasks that can be undertaken by grandmothers and grandfathers interms of providing old age oriented education to the younger generation.

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