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From a municipal to a school-based English A1-language curriculum
1999
Concorso internazionale di progettazione per una Senior City a Cortina d'Ampezzo (BL)
2013
Starting a new business later in life
2014
Self-employment in later life may be either a career option or a form of partial retirement. This paper adds knowledge about those individuals who start a business when they are older. A large longitudinal data set is utilized to examine the transitions of individuals aged 55–74 to self-employment in Finland. The significance of prior activity as well as personal, household, financial, and environmental characteristics is analyzed for the transitions. The results show that most of those entering self-employment in later life have prior self-employment experience, thus suggesting that entrepreneurship at later ages is often habitual. Habitual entrepreneurs deviate from novice entrepreneurs i…
Opportunity- and Necessity-Driven Self-Employment Among Older People in Finland
2017
To date, few empirical studies have attempted to highlight the impact of the socio-economic characteristics of older entrepreneurs according to whether they are driven by necessity or opportunity. Tervo and Haapanen contribute to the economics of ageing by showing that opportunity- and necessity-driven senior entrepreneurs differ in terms of socio-economic characteristics. This chapter utilizes a longitudinal data set from Finland. Individuals aged between 55 and 70 entering self-employment are grouped in terms of pull and push motivations. Profiles of entrepreneurs are developed using personal, family, and environmental characteristics. The results show that opportunity-driven older self-e…
Garīgā aprūpe - vientulības problēmas risinājums Rīgas sociālās aprūpes pakalpojumu institūcijās
2019
Šajā darbā tiek izvirzīts uzdevums meklēt veidus un risinājumus, kā Rīgas sociālo pakalpojumu ietvaros var atrisināt vientulības problēmu, saņemot profesionālu garīgās aprūpes pakalpojumu sociālās aprūpes institūcijās un dzīvesvietā. Garīgās aprūpes pakalpojumam būtu jābūt pieejamam neatkarīgi no reliģiskās pārliecības, nacionālās vai politiskās piederības, mantiskā stāvokļa un citiem faktoriem, ja vien persona to vēlas saņemt. Darba centrā ir indivīds gerontoloģijas vecumā. Persona ar veselības traucējumiem, kas dzīvo viena vai jūtas vientuļa ģimenē. Darbā tiek analizēti iemesli, , kāpēc Rīgā ir tik daudz vientuļu vecu cilvēku. Kādi ir galvenie vientulību izraisošie iemesli pēc pašu senior…
“Dear Young People, don’t vote”. Seniors in political advertisements: irony and/or legitimation
2019
The widespread representation of older people in popular culture as passive and inert has been challenged in a range of recent studies and publications (Nussbaum / Coupland 2004, Caprara et al. 2013). In view of the increasing number of older adults in today’s society, the notion of aging has received significant attention in the public sphere where common assumptions and stereotypes are challenged and potential scenarios are presented. As it has been discussed from different academic perspectives over the past twenty years, older people’s collective condition is undergoing important sociological and cultural changes, making the elderly - among other things - an enticing political reservoir…
Seniors’ social image: the representation of ageing in electoral campaigns
2019
This study builds on previous research on ageing representation in relation to common assumptions and stereotypes (Schneider & Ingram 1993; Holladay & Coombs 2004, Kaid & Garner 2004), in order to provide an overview of the ways in which older adults have been addressed and exploited in US political (i.e. electoral) campaigns. Considering campaign ads as multimodal texts, Kress & van Leeuwen’s social semiotic approach (2001) is used to examine how multimodal elements convey seniors’ images. In addition, this analysis draws on legitimation theory (van Leeuwen 2008) to analyse which legitimation tactic is employed to convey meanings through the voice of elderly people. In this…
Edukacja ustawiczna wobec ekskluzji społecznej seniorów
2017
Social exclusion is a very unfavourable process for both the individual and society as a whole. It is important to counteract it, and this involves taking actions that will prevent itsnegative effects. Education is of great importance in counteracting social exclusion of seniors. Both education until old age, which is aimed at neutralization of harmful prejudices and breaking stereotypes negatively stigmatizing the elderly, and education at old age that gives seniors the opportunity to grow, realize dreams, and get better orientation in changing reality.
Social Participation Considered as Meaningful in old age − the Perceptions of Senior Housing Residents in Finland
2023
AbstractAs populations across the world age, there is a recognised need for promoting social participation in older adults. Previous studies related to social participation have addressed that interactions perceived as meaningful may improve quality of life in old age. However, what is less clear is the nature of such participation from the perspective of older adults, as the vast majority of studies have been quantitative. The present study aimed to explore what characterises social participation that contributes to a meaningful everyday life, from the viewpoint of independently living Finnish older adults. Thematic analysis was used as an interpretative method drawing on semi-structured i…
Nie bij, nie krzycz... O przemocy wobec osób starszych - przegląd badań
2020
W artykule poruszono kwestie dotyczące stosowania przemocy wobec osób starszych. Zjawisko to staje się jednym z głównych problemów społecznych, z którymi muszą zmierzyć się m.in. pracownicy socjalni oraz specjaliści z zakresu pedagogiki (w tym gerontopedagogiki), socjologii, a także przedstawiciele służb pomocowych. Jak wynika z analizy danych statystycznych oraz wyników badań naukowych, skala stosowania przemocy stale się pogłębia. W opracowaniu zaprezentowano przegląd badań dotyczących skali i determinantów stosowania przemocy wobec seniorów oraz koncepcje wycofania moralnego jako jednego z czynników wywołujących zachowania przemocowe.