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“DEĞER” İLE “SORUN” ARASINDA TÜRKİYE’DE YAŞLILARLA İLGİLİ TOPLUMSAL DEĞER YARGILARI (DİN BİLİMLERİ PERSPEKTİFİNDEN BİR İNCELEME)

Author(s): Abdullah İnce / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 36/2017

Aging is a phenomenon which is associated with social, psychological and economic aspects. The Value judgments about senescence and oldster are related to how they are looked at. Perceptions about aging influence the social position of the elders. Statistical distribution of the elders, sociocultural environment, socioeconomic conditions are the factors affecting the formation of value judgments related to the elders. The value judgments related to the old age can sometimes stem from prejudices. In the studies related to the aging period, it is seen that the value judgments related to the elderly are handled with three dimensions; positive, negative and mixed. In Turkey, value judgments about elderly people are shaped in a religious-traditional frame, but it changes depending on sociocultural change. This study aims to reveal positive and negative value judgments about the elderly in Turkey from the perspective of religious sciences. In addition, this value judgments is analyzed in the context of theories of aging, social change and related literature.

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“Greying population”: Economic, social, and ethical appreciation of old age

Author(s): Mieczysław Gałuszka / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2018

As the population is growing older, sociologists and economists are becoming more interested in analyzing this phenomenon. There are two paradigms for interpreting old age. The first one points to excluding old people from social and economic life. It is argued that there should be a balance between activities and possibilities of old people. The other paradigm points to the social, political and economic activities of old people until the end of their lives. It emphasizes their life experience and competencies. The article presents new processes and socio-cultural phenomena that refer to seniors. Some of them are negative like ageism, social isolation, deprivation, the uncertainty of fate and existence. Others are positive and described as “the cult of age” like the dynamic expansion of the grey people industry, development of health care and consumer projects for the elderly. The article argues that the sense and dignity of life of the elderly should be defended, as it is the main motivation and reason for living.

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“Stajyer” Filminin İleri Yaştaki Bireylerin Yaşam Rollerindeki Değişimler Açısından İncelenmesi

Author(s): Habibe Bilgili,Nurten Karacan Özdemir / Language(s): Turkish Issue: Suppl. 1/2020

This study examines the movie “The Intern” in terms of changing life roles of older people. Document analysis, one of qualitative research techniques, was used in the study. The analysis included two categories; developmental factors based on Super’s life-span life-space approach and the factors related to retirement satisfaction. At developmental factors, two sub categories, life stages and theaters-life roles were obtained. Firstly, under life stages, some examples related to disengagement stage and to mini cycle which experienced in this stage were observed in the film. Besides, theaters and life roles pointed work, home, and leisurite roles, mostly. The factors related to retirement satisfaction were grouped under four sub-categories; individual, job, socio-economic and family factors. When the findings were reviewed context to the literature, it was observed that the findings supported the literature regarding career development of older people and they can be used as a source to provide psychological support services to older adults as well as in counseling education.

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“Stop … and Remember”: Memory and Ageing in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels

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“Stop … and Remember”: Memory and Ageing in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novels

Author(s): CATHERINE CHARLWOOD / Language(s): English Issue: 31/2018

This article foregrounds representations of ageing and memory within Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels, particularly Never Let Me Go (2005) and, the less critically considered, The Buried Giant (2015). While criticism and reviews touch upon themes of ageing, loneliness, and loss of bodily function, scholars are yet to reveal either the centrality of this to Ishiguro’s work or how this might speak to real-life questions surrounding ageing. Few readers of Never Let Me Go realise that in writing it Ishiguro’s guiding question was ‘how can I get young people to go through the experience of old people’? The arguments here seek to restore such authorly intentions to prominence. Ishiguro is more interested in socio-cultural meanings of ageing than biologically impoverished memories: this article examines the shifting relationships Ishiguro presents between memory and age as regards what happens to the ways in which memories are valued, and how people might be valuable (or not) for their memories. Interdisciplinary with age studies and social gerontology, this article demonstrates how Ishiguro both contributes to, and contends with, socially constructed concepts of ageing. In refocusing Ishiguro criticism onto reminiscence rather than nostalgia, this article aims to put ageing firmly on the agenda of future research.

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„Dziadkowie – rodzice” widziani oczami dorosłych wnuków

Author(s): Joanna Borowik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

Changes in the family in recent years have contributed more and more frequently to grandparents taking over roles related to caring for grandchildren. Therefore, it becomes important to look for an answer to the question about factors determining the nature of the relationship between grandchildren and grandparents – parents. The purpose of this paper is to present research results showing the relationship between grandchildren and grandparents – parents and the role that the eldest family members played, in the opinion of grandchildren, in their lives.

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„Towarzyszenie w drodze” jako relacja w chorobie Alzheimera (na podstawie doświadczeń opiekunów rodzinnych)

Author(s): Elżbieta Dubas / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author shows Alzheimer’s disease as an example of existential struggles constantly present in human life, especially in context of family carers. In this article relation in Alzheimer`s disease is described as “accompanying the path”, which helps to face with great difficulties of this disease. The author characterized “Accompanying the path” as several relations such as geragogical, social, personal, relation with Other person, relation “to be”. Analyzed experiences of three family carers of Alzheimer`s disease patients, shows several dimensions and principles of “accompanying the path” relation. Those are: personal dimension (personalistic) – which is rule of respecting patient as an human being (person); emotional dimension – rule of creating and maintaining positive emotions; community dimension – obligation to build community bounders within family and social environment of patient; communication dimension – obligation to constant communication with a patient, considering understanding and conversations.

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„Zdrowa” jakość życia seniorów – wyzwaniem dla promocji zdrowia

Author(s): ALINA DWORAK / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Demographic aging of the population, expressed by the increase in the society percentage of elderly people is a social process, which is in the interest of researchers in many fields both medicine, public health, psychology, sociology or social policy. Reason of the increase in the society percent of older people is the extending the duration of human life with a simulta neous decrease in the number of births. Demographic aging of the Polish population, proceed in a similar manner to most European societies. Senile changes are manifested with varying in¬tensity in different periods of human life, causing a progressive reduction of self-reliance, often helplessness. The process of population aging is a problem all over the world, and lengthening the duration of life is not always associated with its quality. Assessing the quality of life of older people we should take into account aspects related to the health and well-being, as well as exponents of social functioning. Reaching old age in good health requires the targeting of social policy not only to extend life, but also to improve its quality. It is also a task for the health promotion of older people, which is the process towards both to change the style of life of older people, as well as changes in the organization of health care and social assistance for the elderly, and to improve the quality of life in the “joy of life”.

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САМОУБИСТВО СТАРИХ – (НЕ)ВОЉНО НАПУШТАЊЕ ЖИВОТА

Author(s): Branislava Knežić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2006

The following text is an attempt to turn the attention of profession and science to those who impelled by infirmity and broken will for life, choose the only option they are left – voluntary but cruel desertion from life.It's about depressed, lonely, disappointed, desperate, helpless and often sick old people, who are frightened by present and disquieted by future, so when they make their life balans the only solution they find is to terminate their existence. Their motives and reasons are numerous, and for some of them we can only surmise, but the result indicates that fear from life overcomes fear from death. Who, When, How, Where and always the most important and the most difficult – Why a man quit his life, are the questions that occupy not only science (philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, law, andragogy, antropology, suicidology...) but also religion, literature and art. Regardless of variety of literature and answers on suicide the question and dilemma that occupy the profession and science still remain: Why a man judge on himself? For those unsatisfied by explanations the weak comfort is that the secret (cause)goes to grave. This is the reason for greater methodological grounding of researches of this complex phenomenon.

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Семейството през призмата на Дома за стари хора „Свети Василий Велики“ в Пловдив

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Семейството през призмата на Дома за стари хора „Свети Василий Велики“ в Пловдив

Author(s): Petya Petrova-Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

The following article focuses on the issue of the nuclear family and the way in which it is accepted by the extended family. Basing myself on observations and information gathered among the occupants of a nursing home, I suggest that the present situation brings forth the nuclear family consisting of a mother, a father and a child/children, but also including the grandparents who seek their place, part and status. Thus I investigate the transformation of the model according to which the children have always been obliged to look after their elderly parents according to the written or unwritten rules. I consider my interlocutors as members of a community very similar to the family based environment. In addition, I presume that this is partially connected with the dissent between the expectations of one of the generations and the possibilities of the other one. Further I analyze the idea of taking care within the family as well as the model of parent–child relations within the institution, stating that the latter is based on emotions like shame, fear and guilt.

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Социална оценка на политиките за трудова, образователна и културна интеграция на имигрантите в България

Author(s): Yoan Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2015

The integration of immigrants in the Bulgarian society rises as a key issue for the European development of Bulgaria. To achieve the necessary results, integration policies need serious optimization. It is necessary to create mechanisms for effective implementation of the measures to deal with the challenges of the time related to migration pressure on the country. The findings of the study of policies for employment, educational and cultural integration of immigrants in the Bulgarian society can serve to correct some measures applied and implemented practices and replacing them with more adequate and appropriate actions. Results could contribute to the effectiveness of ongoing policies, to streamline the process of their realization and to optimize the impact of integration activities and measures. Successful integration requires policy interventions, which are consistent with the government priorities, but also with international commitments. Of particular importance is the Bulgarian statesmen engaged in the formulation and implementation of integration policies to show political will to implement them in practice and making them reality.

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Социјална исклученост на старите лица од системот на социјална заштита во рeпублика Македонија

Author(s): Suzana Bornarova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 1/2008

The global population aging highlights the problem of social exclusion of older people from all spheres of societal life, including from the social protection system. In R. Macedonia, also undergoing the process of demographic population aging, legislation in itself does not exclude older people from the social protection rights on any basis: nationality, gender, age, rural or urban belonging. However, the practice evidences situations of limited or impeded access to the social protection rights. The overriding obstacles are: complex administrative procedures and unsettled family relations (parents-children relations) that are quite often requirements for enjoyment of a specific social protection right. The lack and the underdevelopment of the forms of social protection anticipated by Law (such as home care and assistance, day care, foster care) results into older people having often only normative, but not concurrently a real access and possibilities to use those services. This situation imposes the need to overcome and eliminate the existing barriers in the practical implementation of the legislative regulations; to promote new forms of protection (non-institutional in the first place); as well as to develop and diversify the pension system in terms of introducing public and private pension schemes to cover diverse social services expenses that may occur in old age.

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СОЦИЈАЛНО-ЕКОНОМСКИ ПОЛОЖАЈ СТАРИХ У СРБИЈИ

Author(s): Boško Mijatović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3-4/2003

In this paper a socio-economic status of elderly in Serbia is presented. After the review of basic demographic facts about elderly and total population in Serbia, author has analyzed data on consumption, poverty, housing and incomes of elderly. The statistical basis of this research was Living Standard Measurement Survey of Serbian population, done in 2002. Number of households was 6,386, with 19,725 members. Main findings are: Firstly, at the average, old people haven't high living standard, but live scanty and their needs are not quite fulfilled; however, elderly are lagging behind younger generations very modestly and in a such way they share consequences of Serbian economic woes; Secondly, the status of elderly is relatively equitable and a number of those below a poverty line is moderate (185 thousands), which represents one quarter of the poor in Serbia.

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Социодемографски фактори на резилиентност во зрелоста

Author(s): Vesna Anđelković,Ivana Zubić / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 11/2/2015

The effort is directed towards displaying different factors of maturity in maturity. The research had a purpose to investigate the differences in investigating the resilience of the respondents from wounds, middle and poor maturity in relation to sex, the level of education, spouse and work status. The survey was conducted on samples of 1612 inhabitants of Serbia from 37 towns and villages, of two poles, aged 27-70 years and at all educational levels. A PORPOS battery is used, a dedicated instrument of 389 items and dusts, which, in addition to the second, contains a short scale for estimation of resiliency, as well as a list of general data. The results show that respondents with a deep maturity in relation to those of early and medium maturity are less resilient in terms of all examined factors at a statistically significant level. Specifically, women in the mid-mature period, who will be compared with the other two subgroups of their females, have the greatest resilience, and the females in their mature maturity, compared with the other subgroups of men, have the smallest. Likewise, respondents in a deep maturity are less resilient than the other two subgroups in relation to all levels of education, except for the basic one when they are not married and caregivers. In addition, the respondents in early maturity with the highest level of education are less resilient than those who are in middle maturity. The results obtained generally suggest that the level of resistance changes in the course of the age and that sociodemographic factors should be included in its comprehension.

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Старосна дискриминација

Author(s): Amra Muhotić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2015

Population agеing is a process present throughout the world, is a challenge for society and leads to the implication in all spheres of life. The paper points out the problem of age discrimination, discussed the key aspects of this form of discrimination in employment, as well as in connection with termination of employment. Special attention was paid to the problem of early retirement of older workers and concluded that it is important to support active aging by means of a suitable working conditions, better health care at work and adequate incentives to work. In this way the so-called people. third age active participation in building the social order more easily bear the burden of age.

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СТАРОСТ-ГРДОСТ: ЕТНОГРАФСКИ БЕЛЕШКИ ЗА БЕЗДЕТНИТЕ СТАРЦИ ВО РЕПУБЛИКА МАКЕДОНИЈА

Author(s): Ilina Jakimovska,Ana Ashtalkovska Gajtanoska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 16/2017

Во текстот фокусот е ставен на животните приказни на бездетни стари лица низ Македонија. Теренските материјали вклучуваат интервјуа со бездетни брачни партнери во различни села низ Македонија спроведени во последните 15 години. Преку нивните приказни се истражуваат промените во традициските вредности и норми поврзани со старите родители или сродници. Посебно внимание е посветено на парадоксалната (и понекогаш иронична) позиција на овие луѓе кои поради генералната тенденција на напуштање на старите родители од страна на нивните деца завршуваат подеднакво осамени и ранливи како и родителите во многудетните семејства.

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Старостта във византийско-балканския свят

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Старостта във византийско-балканския свят

Author(s): Yoanna Bencheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The article examines the notions of old age in the Byzantine-Balkan Middle Ages. It attempts at defining when does old age come and which are its characteristics. The study searches for answers to the questions: what kind of care for the elderly people did the institutions and the family provide; what sort of food and medical care wereappropriate for them; what was the attitude of society towards the elderly people andwas there any difference between representatives of various social groups.

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Студија – Социјална исклученост на старите лица во Република Македонија

Author(s): Sunčica Dimitrijoska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 3/2009

In the Study on Social Exclusion of the Elderly in the Republic of Macedonia, financially supported by UNFPA, the problem of social exclusion of the elderly is analyzed regarding: coverage, rights, accessibility, quality of service provided, obstacles in achieving what is defined in laws and policies in the protection and the real situation, as well as the current reforms and challenges of the systems of social protection, the pension system, education and health care.

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Типови популационе динамике у насељима Заплања

Author(s): Marija Martinović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2012

The aim of this article is to present the main directions of changes in the spatial-demographic settlements organization of Zaplanje, which, due to rapid demographic recession since the 60s of the 20th century, is the strongest depopulation area with the oldest population in Serbia. This research aims is to determine the main types of changes in demographic development of the settlements and indirectly reveals key issues of the sustainable development of Zaplanje settlements and revitalization of villages. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 176017]

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Цифрові компетентності соціальних працівників як передумова готовності до навчання літніх людей

Author(s): Andrii Karkach,Tetyana Semigina / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 05/2021

The purpose of the study is to determine the level of readiness of social workers to teach digital technologies to the elderly in universities of the third age, which operate based on territorial centres of social services. The study was conducted in the Poltava region from June 2020 - October 2020. The sample was social workers who provide educational services to students of the University of the Third Age. The total number of respondents was 73 people. The digital literacy analysis of social workers providing geronto-education services was conducted according to five main parameters: information literacy, computer literacy, communication and media literacy, and technology literacy. The results of the digital literacy assessment show that two-thirds of social workerteachers have enough knowledge, skills and follow the right attitudes. At the same time, digital skills received an average of 3.2 points (3.4 urban and 3.0 rural) out of 5 possible. The majority of social workers (66 people, 90%) have been actively using digital technologies in the geronto-educational process of the Third Age University for less than ten years. The study found out that 96% of social workers-gerorogists desire to move to online learning in the current situation, of which 78% expressed a desire to undergo professional retraining in online learning. As the main obstacles to mastering and developing gerorogical technologiesinnovations, social workers named: insufficient awareness of digital innovations, lack of scientific and methodological literature on social technologies for teaching elderly people; lack of logistics for the application of gerorogical digital innovations; lack of material incentives. The results of the study indicate the need to develop social workers-gerorogists: knowledge in the field of modern computer technology and software, as well as the principles of their work; skills of using modern technologies (gadgets and applications); installations in the field of verification of information from the Internet and mass media; attitudes about the benefits of modern gadgets for the daily life of a professional.

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Четврти светски конгрес за стареењето и генерациите

Author(s): Suzana Bornarova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 2/2008

The University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, from August 28 to 30, 2008, held the 4th World Congress of Aging and Generations, organized by the World Demographic Association. The Congressman from Macedonia was a doc. Dr. Susanna Bornarova from the Institute for Social Work and Social Policy, who took part in this event at the invitation of the World Demographic Association and the ERSTE Foundation, based in Vienna.

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