50+ w świecie informacji, czy można mówić o wykluczeniu cyfrowym?

Author(s): Roland Lukasiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 01/2016

Contemporary social space scale computerization should go hand in hand with the possibilities of implementation in each of the groups of new technologies. In fact, the desire to meet changes at the front of the wall of opposition from both the technical and digital exclusion problems associated with the lack of digital literacy. The development sets the scale of the problem of the digital divide and seniors representing a wide audience of people with no practical possibility of using a computer and the Internet.

Chirurgia i starość

Author(s): Andrzej Wysocki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 32/2015

Z procesem starzenia związane są zmiany wsteczne ważnych dla życia narządów, spadają możliwości adaptacyjne tak fizyczne, jak i psychiczne. Z wiekiem rośnie ryzyko zachorowania szczególnie na choroby serca i naczyń, nowotwory, uchyłki jelita grubego, choroby kości i stawów. Rosnąca średnia długość życia, zwiększająca się liczba ludzi w podeszłym wieku oraz zjawisko wielochorobowaści stawiają przed publicznym systemem ochrony zdrowia wielkie wymagania. W Polsce w najbliższych latach związane z tym problemy medyczne i ekonomiczne będą coraz większe. Poważnym zagadnieniem jest świadoma zgoda na operację. Nawet gdy sytuacja zdrowotna pacjenta i zasada operacji są mu przedstawione w prosty sposób, to rzeczywiste zrozumienie i świadomy wybór postępowania mogą być trudne do osiągnięcia, zwłaszcza w przypadku nagłych operacji.Disorders in the functioning of main human organs and in adaptive possibilities in both psychological and physical aspects are a natural occurrence in the process of ageing. The risk of various diseases, particularly cardiovascular ones, cancer, colon diverticulitis and degenerative arthritis, increases with age. Longer life expectancy together with an increasing number of elderly people and multiple morbidities become a great challenge for the public health system. In the nearest future both medical and economical issues connected with this phenomenon will become a significant problem in Poland. Informed consent for surgery is an important issue. Even after receiving all necessary information on one’s health and clearing out the details of surgical proceeding, deep understanding and conscious decision may be difficult to achieve, especially in urgent and sudden surgeries.

Coping and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Adulthood: Specificities Regarding Age, Gender and Level of Education

Author(s): Helena Smrtnik-Vitulic,Simona Prosen / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

In the study, the use of coping and emotion regulation (ER) strategies is compared in 194 adults aged between 20 and 65 years, regarding their age (emerging, young or middle adulthood), gender and level of education. There are almost no significant differences in the use of coping and ER strategies in adults regarding age. Women use certain ER strategies (e.g., attentional deployment) more than men, but there is no difference between the two groups in the use of coping strategies. Adults with a low level of education use more confrontive coping and distracting in comparison with adults with a high level of education, while the escape- -avoiding coping strategy is used more by adults with low and middle levels of education than those with a high level of education. Regarding ER, adults with a low level of education use more cognitive reappraisal of importance than both groups with a higher educational level, whereas they use suppression and substances only more than adults with a high level of education. Correlations between coping and ER strategies are mostly non-significant, suggesting that coping and ER are distinct processes in adulthood.

Determinants of Self-Rated Health and Self-Rated Physical Fitness in Middle and Old Age

Author(s): Kimmo Kuosmanen,Suvi Rovio,Miia Kivipelto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Aulikki Nissinen,Jenni Kulmala / Language(s): English / Issue: 01-02/2016

Self-rated health (SRH) correlates with psychological factors, mortality and functional capacity. Self-rated physical fitness (SRF) has been examined less, and the relationship between SRH and SRF is unclear. The aim of this study was to explore the determinants, differences and similarities of these concepts in middle and old age. In total, 2,000 persons at the mean age of 50.6 years were examined at baseline, and 1,449 were re-examined when they were aged between 65–79 years. On both occasions, the participants underwent a comprehensive clinical examination and health status/habit assessment. We found a strong correlation between SRH and SRF. In midlife, low income, hopelessness, active use of healthcare services, physical inactivity, angina pectoris, arthropathy and elevated blood pressure were associated with both poor SRH and SRF. In old age, high income, alcohol abstinence, physical inactivity, hopelessness, difficulties in activities of daily living, angina pectoris, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and musculoskeletal disease of the back, and (in men) urinary tract infection were associated with poor SRH and SRF. Income, hopelessness, physical inactivity and angina pectoris correlated with both instruments in both age groups. A wider range of variables was associated with SRH than with SRF. The determinants of SRH and SRF were relatively similar in the younger and older age groups. However, SRH appeared to be a more multi-dimensional instrument than SRF. SRH and SRF are considered reliable indicators of mental and physical health status, and should be accorded more importance when evaluating health among middle-aged and older people.

Dzieciństwo w Bullerbyn czy z tiger mothers? Bycie dzieckiem a stawanie się szczęśliwym dorosłym – zastrzeżenia wobec stosowania perspektywy inwestycji społecznych w polityce społecznej

Author(s): Piotr Michon / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2014

Social policy towards children has become dominated by the perspective of social investment. Without questioning the legitimacy of the social investment concept, this article points out its limitations. While investing in children benefits the children, their families and the general public, it is however based on questionable assumptions: (1) childhood inferiority; childhood is treated as inferior to adulthood, (2) effectiveness and selection; it should be invested in such a way that the return on investment is the largest; (3) competitive advantage; the purpose of investing in the child by parents is for them to gain a competitive advantage in adulthood; (4) the dominance of the labour market perspective; it should be invested into what will be advantageous in obtaining professional work; (5) the inequality of the many varied talents (related to previous point); some areas of human activity, human talents and skills are less important than the others, hence the policy should focus on the most important ones; (6) knowledge of the future; people know what will be needed in the future; (7) stability of the model of adulthood; what is today considered as „being an adult” will remain unchanged in the future. The adoption of these assumptions results in a policy: that supports “becoming an adult” at the expense of “being” a child; is mainly targeted at the poorest children because the return on investment in this group is the greatest; that privileges the skills and talents needed for salary work; that is based on the reigning normative expectations regarding adulthood and what the future will look like; that encourages people to obtain competitive advantages.

Inkluzja społeczno-zawodowa osób starszych determinantą realizacji koncepcji srebrnej gospodarki

Author(s): Ewa Sobolewska-Poniedzialek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 103/2017

Predictions of demographers suggest the population in Europe will grow old at a faster pace compared to other continents. This causes certain economic and social consequences, but also opens to opportunities. The potential of older people, both professional and social is a key factor for the development of the concept of silver economy. This concept assumes utilizing the potential of older people for the benefit of themselves and for the economy, but also the development of the market towards the most efficient meeting the needs of the group of elders. The aim of this study is to determine the role of socio-occupational inclusion of older people in the process of implementing the silver economy. The paper analyzes the development of selected indicators of social and occupational participation of elders and forecasts in this regard. The analysis covers Poland on the background the European Union. Empirical basis for inference is data PARP in the form of test results Human Capital, the Social Diagnosis and Eur stat. Investigations were carried out using the method of desk research.

Kognitivni trening kod starijih osoba: utječe li kognitivna vježba na neke osobine ličnosti i subjektivnu dobrobit?

Author(s): Jadrana Bekavac,Andrea Vranic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2015

Evaluations of cognitive training programs for the elderly usually show marked improvement in cognitive abilities after the training and maintenance effects in a longer period after the training. Some studies find transfer effects to non-trained cognitive tasks. The effect of cognitive training has rarely been tested on non-cognitive variables. This study tested a 10-week memory training based on the hypothesis of metacognitive changes moderating the process of cognitive aging to investigate its effect on dispositional variables (optimism/pessimism, locus of control) and subjective well- -being. Retirement homes residents, randomly assigned to treatment (N = 21) or active control (N = 20) group, participated in this study. Measurement of training-related gains – i.e. changes in non-cognitive measures compared to pretest – was conducted after the training (posttest) and at the 6-month follow-up. Results revealed significant changes in some dispositional variables (optimism, external locus of control) and subjective well-being at the posttest. Although somewhat moderated, a similar pattern of results was found at the follow-up. These results suggest that cognitive training programs, combining strategy learning and metacognitive activities, can improve the quality of life in the elderly, i.e. improvement in optimism, internal locus and subjective well-being, and decline in pessimism and external locus.

Konference „New Measures of Age and Ageing,“ Vídeň, Rakousko, 3.–5. 12. 2014

Author(s): Marcela Petrová Kafková / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 05/2015

Konference „New Measures of Age and Ageing,“ Vídeň, Rakousko, 3.–5. 12. 2014 (Marcela Petrová Kafková) [891] Konference „15th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: EUROCRIM 2015“, Porto, Portugalsko, 2.–5. 9. 2015 (Lukáš Dirga) [892] Český sociálněvědní datový archiv zpřístupnil data z předvolebních výzkumů České televize ke krajským volbám v roce 2012 (Johana Chylíková) [893]

Kortalan szervezetek?

Vállalati stratégiák és munkahelyi esélyegyenlőségi rendszerek a különböző életkorú munkavállalók foglalkoztatásában

Author(s): Katalin Tardos / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

Age discrimination is one of the most frequent grounds of discrimination in employment, particularly for those aged 55 years and over, both in Hungary and the European Union. As a result, lower levels of employment rates compared to the active age population and a more vulnerable labour market positon has been a long-term trend for the younger and more mature age groups. Hence, it is extremely important to explore what strategies employers develop for the age composition of their workforce and to what extent they encourage age-friendly human resource practices and workplace diversity and equality systems that enable the employment of people belonging to different age groups and generations with higher probability. Employers’ age-related strategies and practices have not been considerably researched in Hungary to date. This paper analyses employers’ age-related human resource management practices and diversity and inclusion initiatives based on an online questionnaire completed by a sample of 121 companies. Using cluster analysis three different age-related company strategies have been identified as the inclusion and exclusion of younger and more mature age groups significantly differed in the organisations of each cluster. An important finding of the research was that age-friendly human resource management initiatives were less developed in companies that were characterised by an imbalanced age composition. Furthermore, it has been revealed that more developed age-friendly human resource management practices correlate with lower levels of exclusion based on age, but not with a balanced age composition requiring more in-depth structural changes on behalf of the company.

Lietuvos pensijų politikos 2009–2015 m. ideologinės tendencijos

Author(s): Daiva Skuciene / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 7(1)/2016

After the beginning of the financial crisis in Lithuania and the world, the demand to balance public finances arose in order to safeguard current liabilities due to lower budget revenues. Thus, the pensions constitute the major part of current payments. The issue of pensions remains relevant not only because of the crisis but also because of other socio-economic challenges. The aim of the article is to analyse the direction of the neoliberal or interventionist Lithuanian pension policy during the period of 2009–2015. Earlier studies related to the pension system were mostly focused on the purpose of the pension as well as on challenges caused by socio-economic changes (Eckardt 2005); (Fernandez 2012) new risks (Shuey, O’Rand 2006); prevention of poverty (Foster 2011) etc. The article is based on a qualitative document analysis. The following documents of 2009–2015 are analysed: the Conception of the Pension Reform; the Benchmark Plan of the Reform of Pension System; the Law of Recalculation of Social Benefits and the Draft of Labour and State Social Insurance Juridicaladministrative Model. The methodological approach based on neoliberal/interventionist categories according to Frericks et al. (2009) is utilised in the article. The research findings demonstrate that during the analysed period not pure neoliberal or interventionist but more mixed model of the pension policy prevailed in Lithuania. Socioeconomic challenges such as fiscal pressure, demographical ageing, the demand for a more accurate private pension market supervision, for the decrease of social exclusion and for the assurance of higher financial equality through generations determined this model in the country.

Lifelong Learning as an Important Element of the Social Integration of the Elderly

Author(s): Monika Adamczyk,Agnieszka Budny / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2016

Education is now being more and more frequently considered as an area that is important not only for children and young people, but also for the working-age and retirement-age populations. Rapid socio-economic growth, characterised, e.g., by the development of new technologies, requires individuals and communities to continuously acquire and broaden their knowledge and skills. Social groups that fail to follow this trend often find it difficult to fit in with the contemporary knowledge society. This situation not only marginalises a large number of citizens but also denies their needs. Continuous education, provided, e.g., by universities of the third age, not only prevents this, but also provides the elderly with opportunities for full participation in socio-cultural life and social integration with their environment. This article explores the issue of education in late adulthood, addressing it from two angles. Firstly, it presents education as an element of active and happy ageing, and secondly, as an area for the social integration of the elderly during the changes in their social roles, characteristic for the old age.

Ostarjeti na otoku

Kvaliteta života starijega stanovništva hrvatskih otoka

Author(s): Sonja Podgorelec / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 2008

The ageing of the populations of Croatian island is the result of the process that marked island life during the past century – emigration. Permanent outflow from the islands of mainly younger people of working age had a gradual effect on the total reduction of population, and also on natural demographic trends, causing a fall in the birth-rate and relative growth of the death rate. The result of such natural and mechanical trends was the ageing of the island population reinforced by the return of islanders after retirement to their island. The specificity of island life, the age and gender structure of the population as well as the self-reliance of frequently small populations, have determined the roles of individual groups and have forced the inhabitants of the Croatian islands to lead active lives into advanced old age. The author argues for a broader conception of understanding the activities of elderly members of island communities and provides an answer to the questions of the ways of island life and the role of migration, evaluates the problems of island community and ways of solving them, and talks about the place of elderly people in revival programmes for the islands and the quality of their life at the beginning of the 3rd millennium. In this connection a quantitative analysis of census data and data from various other institutions were used, while in the field survey the questionnaire method was applied as well as the biographic method or the method of deep interviews. The questionnaire survey was conducted on a sample of the populations of Ugljan, Iž and Dugi Otok. Likewise we tried to give a broader and more individual picture of the quality of life of the elderly island people through ten life stories of old islanders, the majority of whom were inhabitants of the Kvarner islands: Krk, Cres and Lošinj.

PARTNERSHIP, HEALTH AND AGEING RESEARCH. WALKING THE TALK & LESSONS LEARNT

Author(s): Lorna Dyall,Mere Kepa / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2015

In a new initiative, in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland, a cohort of the oldest old indigenous Māori and non-Māori people have been encouraged to volunteer for a study of ageing. The objectives of the research entitled, Te Puāwaitanga o ngā tapuwae kia ora tonu, Life and Living in advanced age: A cohort study in New Zealand (LiLACS NZ) can be stated as an investigation of successful factors and trends of advanced ageing [people 80 plus years old]. The longitudinal study is in the 5th year of operation and all the participants are now nonagenarians. The authors will draw on the baseline data to show the contribution by the indigenous Māori people to the production and exchange of knowledge and culture to redefine the shape of health and ageing research in the 21st century. LiLACS NZ has not taken place in a laboratory: the project is a partnership between the Māori and non-Māori investigators in the School and the Māori and non-Māori research partners in the Bay of Plenty region. The investigation is an example of preparing a research design and method to advance scientific knowledge of health and ageing; to advance Te reo Māori me ngā tikanga [See glossary] in the production and exchange of mātauranga Māori and health science, and to deepen and broaden the capacity of the gerontological research team, similar to learning that occurs in the classroom.

Piękno starzejącego się ciała: oczywisty czy pozorny wymiar wartości społecznych?

Author(s): Mariola Bienko / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 55/2015

The purpose of this paper is to review theory and empirical research concerned with the problem of social and subjective body image among the elderly. There is a common perception among the public that age reduces attractiveness and older people tend to be stereotyped as “ugly”. Given the challenges of aging, older individuals strive to maintain positive evaluation of their physical selves both in domain of appearance and health. As newer cohorts of “over sixties” replace older cohorts, changes have become embodied in through increased levels of discretionary spending, greater levels of physical activity, more attention to diet and fitness regimes, more frequent recourse to cosmetic and rejuvenative technologies. The analysis has shown that there is a social stigma around the effects of the natural ageing process. Obsession with a youthful and beautiful appearance has become commonplace in modern western society and has resulted in procedures trying to reverse the aging process. The need for aeastheticization of bodies and media fixation on beauty functions as censorship of old age in the physical realm. Special attention was given the gender-related differences in aging. As there are examples of men presented in mass culture who were “allowed” to get old, in the case of women it is obligatory to be “forever young”.

Planeta wolna od dzieci

Między pragnieniem wymarcia a nadzieją na nieśmiertelność

Author(s): Monika Bakke / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 06/2014

In response to growth in the human population, resulting in devastation to the planet and a rising catastrophic sentiment in the West, two radically different narratives about the end of the human species have emerged. One opts for voluntary extinction as a form of ecologically motivated altruism; the second is techno-euthanasia, which hypothesizes a quantum leap forward to a post-human era and the hope of radical life extension. However, between the desire for extinction and hope for immortality, a slowly but steadily growing number of people are choosing a third way: remaining childfree for the sake of their own lifestyle preferences. A such conceived renouncement of parenting should not be confused with childlessness and its associated lack, but should be seen rather as a sign of the times, an individual choice to enjoy the pleasures in life, which are treated as a value in themselves, without the need for the biological extension of life itself.

POČINIOCI NASILJA NAD STARIJIM OSOBAMA

Author(s): Nusreta Salic,Hariz Šaric / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 65/2016

This article presents the results of research study titled “Social causes of violence against elderly in Tuzla Canton” carried out in 2012. The objective of this research was analysis of social causes for domestic violence and reasons for susceptibility of becoming a victim of domestic violence in later age. Kinds and forms of violence, frequency and social (risk) factors that can produce violence on people in later age were also surveyed. The research was carried out during the period from 1st March to 30th October 2012. Questionnaire included 130 elderly persons and 44 experts employed at 13 social work centres. The research work aimed at analysing the extent of exposure of elderly to domestic violence, kinds and forms of violence, frequency, perpetrators and the attitude towards reporting this kind of violence to the authorities. The main aim of the research was to evaluate the influence of certain risk factors that can incite the violence on elderly.

POR UNA DECLARACIÓN DE DERECHOS DE LAS PERSONAS MAYORES

Author(s): Gomez Pilar Munuera,Bracho Carmen Alemán / Language(s): Spanish / Issue: 2/31/2016

The need to set a statement relating to the elderly’s rights that could beconnected to a legislation with the aim to guarantee the protection of the former, ispresented herein. The existence of some omissions within the recognition of the elderly’srights has been confirmed despite the international and national laws adopted regardingtheir human rights based on the fact that they are people included under the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights of 1948. Elderly people have passed from being respected dueto their age and position, to a situation of social exclusion and a lack of legal protection. Thesetting of a bill of rights regarding the elderly shall be addressed institutionally in order toprevent the continuous acts infringed against elderly people causing damage to their dignityas human beings. Currently it is difficult for them to achieve that their participation shall berespected and they lack the conditions of equality that the rest of the citizens enjoy to claimand enforce their rights.

Praca socjalna z człowiekiem starym. Wybrane konteksty

Author(s): Zofia Szarota / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 32/2015

Przedmiotem podjętych analiz są zmiany zachodzące w polskiej senioralnej polityce społecznej. Trendy demograficzne generują nowe obszary potrzeb. Zmieniona ustawa o pomocy społecznej wyznacza nową jakość zaspokajania potrzeb osób starszych. W artykule odniesiono się do kierunków i obszarów polityki społecznej. Skoncentrowano się na charakterystyce metod pracy socjalnej jako narzędzi wsparcia osób w podeszłym i zaawansowanym wieku: seniorów w pełni samodzielnych i z utraconą samodzielnością funkcjonalną.The article analyses selected issues connected with the changes in the Polish social policy regarding senior citizens. Demographic trends generate new areas of needs. The revised law on social assistance sets new standards in the area of meeting the needs of the elderly, and the article addresses the directions and areas of social policy. The author focuses on the characteristics of social work methods as a tool to support two groups of senior citizens: those fully self-reliant and those who need assistance as they have lost their functional independence.

Przedsiębiorczość osób w wieku niemobilnym jako sposób ich aktywizacji zawodowej i inkluzji społecznej

Author(s): Halina Smutek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 32/2015

Cel naukowy: Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie problemu osób w tak zwanym wieku niemobilnym w kontekście realiów współczesnego rynku pracy, stawiającego coraz to wyższe wymagania, co może stanowić źródło wykluczenia zawodowego osób niepotrafiących odnaleźć się tej kalejdoskopowej dynamice.Problem i metody badawcze: Opracowanie stanowi przegląd literatury przedmiotu oraz sprawozdań i raportów dotyczących problematyki grupy osób w tak zwanym wieku niemobilnym, pozwalających na scharakteryzowanie i usystematyzowanie problemu. Wyniki analizy badań bibliometrycznych stanowiły podstawę do wskazania rekomendacji i możliwości ograniczania wykluczenia zawodowego i społecznego „pracujących seniorów”.Proces wywodu: Niniejsze opracowanie jest próbą zwrócenia uwagi na wagę oraz skalę problemu. Na podstawie analiz bibliometrycznych przedstawiono poziom aktywności zawodowej grupy 50+, uwzględniając zarówno osoby pracujące na etacie, jak również te, które rozpoczęły działalność gospodarczą. Wskazano na przedsiębiorczość indywidualną, która może dostarczyć przynajmniej częściowe antidotum na problem aktywizacji zawodowej w badanej grupie wiekowej.Wyniki analizy naukowej: Wyniki analizy wskazują na konieczność podjęcia działań pozwalających na wykorzystanie potencjału osób starszych poprzez aktywizację ich potencjału przedsiębiorczości, wyzwolenie indywidualnych cech osobowości, takich jak innowacyjność, umiejętność dostrzegania zmieniających się uwarunkowań, elastyczność polegająca na ciągłym uczeniu się, umożliwiających odnaleźć się w warunkach współczesnego rynku pracy.Wnioski, innowacje, rekomendacje: Zestawienie poziomu różnych form aktywności zawodowej poszczególnych grup zawodowych zwraca uwagę na konieczność objęcia wsparciem osób już od 45. roku życia, który stanowi dolną granicę wyznaczania tak zwanego wieku niemobilnego. Szczególnego znaczenia nabierają programy zarządzania wiekiem, pozwalające podtrzymać aktywność zawodową oraz tworzące nowe miejsca pracy.Research Objective: The purpose of this article is to present the problem of the so-called immobile age in the context of the realities of the modern labor market which has higher demands and could be a source of vocational exclusion of people unable to find the way out in this kaleidoscopic dynamics.The Research Problem and Methods: The article provides an overview of literature, scientific results and reports concerning the problems of so-called older workers in order to characterize and systematize the subject. The results of analysis of bibliometric studies formed the basis for indicating the recommendation and the possibility of limiting the professional and social exclusion of “working seniors.”The Process of Argumentation: This article attempts to draw attention to the significance and scale of the problem. On the basis on the results of bibliometric analysis, it shows the level of economic activity of “50+” group, taking into account both people working full-time and those who run their own business. Being self-employed may provide at least a partial antidote to the problem of professional activation in the studied age group.Research Results: The results of the analysis indicate the need to take measures to make use of the potential of the elderly by activating their entrepreneurial potential and the liberation of individual personality traits, such as innovation, the ability to see the changing circumstances, and flexibility in the sense of continuous learning, which allows people to find their place in the modern labor market.Conclusions, Innovations and Recommendations: Juxtaposition of the level of various forms of professional activity among different professional groups draws attention to the need of supporting people over the age of 45, which is the lowest limit of the determination of the so called immobile age. The age management programs, which allow for sustaining professional activity and creating new jobs seem particularly important.

Przedsiębiorczość seniorów jako komponent przedsiębiorczości inkluzywnej: wstępna synteza

Author(s): Krzysztof Wach / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 32/2015

Celem artykułu jest omówienie przedsiębiorczości seniorów jako domeny badawczej, uporządkowanie terminologiczne związane z tą domeną, a także ukazanie głównych wyników badań prowadzonych w tymzakresie. Przedsiębiorczość seniorów staje się jednym z ważniejszych obszarów badań w krajach rozwiniętych, zwłaszcza w obliczu starzenia się społeczeństw tych krajów. Prowadzone badania w zakresie przedsiębiorczości seniorów zajmują się osobami w wieku 50+. Dotychczasowe badania wykazały, że osoby starsze są znacznie mniej skłonne do podejmowania działalności gospodarczej niż osoby młodsze. Artykuł jest bardzo wstępnym i syntetycznym ujęciem analizowanego problemu.This article aims to discuss the senior entrepreneurship as the research domain, as well as to organize the terminology associated with that domain, and to present the main findings of research conducted in this area. Senior entrepreneurship is becoming one of the most important areas of research in developed countries, especially in the face of population aging in these countries. Various research in the field of senior entrepreneurship deal with those aged 50+. Prior studies have shown that older people in their third age are less inclined to take up economic activities and have lower entrepreneurial intentions than younger people in their prime age. The article is the very preliminary and synthetic recognition of the analysed problem.