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The Sociocultural Animation Project "Active Ageing in a Retirement Home" designs Animation as an integral part the daily life of the institution and its residents. Using this approach we hope to improve quality of life for residents, promoting an environment that helps elderly people live their closing years in an active and satisfactory way. We conclude that Sociocultural Animation is a mode of intervention in all aspects of the life of the elderly, and it is a permanent stimulus for mental, physical and emotional capacities. It acts in facilitating access to a more active and creative life, improves communication in relationships with others, encouraging better preparation for life in a community and it develops personal autonomy.

The current study aims to support the development of useful and desired methods for active ageing education in the respective local communities across the EU for older adults aged 55+. The PPS project will develop a face-to-face training programme (30 hours) on active ageing and an e-learning training (11 modules). The main research questions of this study are: What is active ageing education and how responsive are older adults to active ageing education? How can active ageing trainings/courses be integrated into local communities? Spain is currently one of the pioneering countries in the field of active ageing. Thanks to scientific breakthroughs, to the high quality of public healthcare and to the development of social policies, Spanish citizens live longer and with a better quality of life, due to which seniors have grown in number, enjoy an improved health condition, are more participative and, therefore, are expected to play a more relevant role in society. Today's older adults are largely active and healthy; they look after themselves in order to stay independent and autonomous as long as possible, and they also demand social space and voice.

PurposeThis article attempts to match the future needs of older people with the possibilities arising from applications based on new technology.Design/methodology/approachThis article examines the implications of novel applications for active ageing policy. These applications are forecast to arise from the convergence of two or more previously separated science disciplines and technologies, including information and communication technologies, nanotechnologies, biotechnology and cognitive sciences.FindingsResearch on converging applications (CA) is largely driven by health applications, and is likely to spill over into the older generation's specific needs. Today, older people's most urgent needs require little CA. In the future, however, the role of CA will become more important as technology develops and is more widely used.Originality/valueOwing to demographic change and its expected social and economic implications, there is a need to investigate how upcoming applications could contribute to the future specific needs of the older population.

One of the most important paradigms that emerged in demographic literature
when it comes to mitigation of the population ageing in developed world is
the concept of active ageing. At the core of this approach is the idea that
elderly population is a very important and resourceful segment of a society
because of their large experience in different fields that can contribute to
the welfare of all. However, there are still no empirical studies of the
population such as pensioners that can contribute the most. Even though
elderly pensioners are economically inactive, they have a considerable spare
time and non-negligible financial assets. In order to empirically enlighten
the practice of active ageing in Serbia, we conducted a survey based on the
questionnaire from Special Eurobarometer Report 378 dealing with issues of
active ageing in Europe. We chose as the target population (already active)
participants of the Sixth Olympiad of Sport, Health and Culture for the Third
Age held in Vrnjacka Banja. As a result, we got comprehensive responses to a
variety of questions, which could be used as guidelines on how to achieve
active aging. Additionally, collected evidences of different attitudes of the
active elderly towards family, young generations, work, pension, and the like
are elaborated.

The article explores the trend towards early exit that has established itself over the last decades in most European countries, and the policies that 10 countries (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the UK) have developed to tackle that problem. The research question is whether those reforms contribute to active ageing. The authors also analyse factors that may foster or hinder the success of pension reforms in achieving higher effective retirement ages. Among those factors, individual workers' retirement preferences, company policies, and general employment levels are of particular importance.

The article explores the trend towards early exit that has established itself over the last decades in most European countries, and the policies that 10 countries (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the UK) have developed to tackle that problem. The research question is whether those reforms contribute to active ageing. The authors also analyse factors that may foster or hinder the success of pension reforms in achieving higher effective retirement ages. Among those factors, individual workers' retirement preferences, company policies, and general employment levels are of particular importance. Adapted from the source document.

The main feature of Croatian islands, in addition to their beautiful nature,
is the fact that they are demographically and sociologically one of the most
threatened areas affected by ageing. The ageing of the island population is
the result of a long-term depopulation caused by the continuous emigration
of the younger working-active population over the past hundred years, but
also by the retirement return migration in the last thirty years. The most
critical situation is on small islands where the majority of population is
aged over 60 and this has a significant impact on all aspects of island life.
The research conducted on small islands in the Sibenik archipelago in 2011
has shown that older people live alone, with no significant health problems
limiting their daily activities, in their own households (homes), on modest
pensions, and many of them supplement their income through agriculture. They
very often financially help their children, who live mostly in nearby
mainland cities. The necessity of self-reliance, due to the lack of younger
generations, forces the inhabitants of Croatian island to lead an active life
until their old age. Although they are no longer actively employed, they
still continue to contribute significantly to the family and society through
their involvement in various community activities.

In the last 15 years, STS has established a research programme focused on the sociotechnical reconfiguration of later life, particularly as new political programmes aim to deploy 'active ageing' in contemporary societies. In Denmark, the bicycle is a key technology in this aim, because of how it articulates sustainable living, health and social participation. Thus, two new 'inclusive cycling' initiatives for older people have been developed. Drawing on ethnographic data, we explore the ways the bikes differ, and how they explicitly mobilise active ageing as a form of 'good old age' in different ways. We argue that whereas 'Cycling without Age' rickshaws attempt to assemble social participation for older people, 'Duo-Bikes' aims to enable capacities through physical activity in later life. We further explore what happens when these two schemes meet, and suggest how searching for a compromise will be necessary to enhance opportunities to cycle in later life. ; In the last 15 years, STS has established a research programme focused on the sociotechnical reconfiguration of later life, particularly as new political programmes aim to deploy 'active ageing' in contemporary societies. In Denmark, the bicycle is a key technology in this aim, because of how it articulates sustainable living, health and social participation. Thus, two new 'inclusive cycling' initiatives for older people have been developed. Drawing on ethnographic data, we explore the ways the bikes differ, and how they explicitly mobilise active ageing as a form of 'good old age' in different ways. We argue that whereas 'Cycling without Age' rickshaws attempt to assemble social participation for older people, 'Duo-Bikes' aim to enable capacities through physical activity in later life. We further explore what happens when these two schemes meet, and suggest how searching for a compromise will be necessary to enhance opportunities to cycle in later life.

Although the active ageing concept generally has positive connotations, with expected benefits at the micro, meso and macro levels, the application of this concept in terms of policy making presents challenges and risks to be avoided (for instance, a predominantly productivist interpretation and a top-down imposition with limited possibilities for bottom-up exchanges; or a disregard for the risk of excluding older people with more disadvantaged backgrounds). Two crucial strategies to minimise risks are the implementation of policies by considering and respecting territorial diversity, and the involvement of all the relevant stakeholders in a participatory consultative and co-decisional approach. This paper entwines both strategies together by focusing on Italian in-country differences in terms of active ageing, and employing the Active Ageing Index for policy-making purposes. This activity is part of a governmental national pilot project aimed at promoting multilevel co-managed co-ordination of active ageing policies across Italy. The analysis identified five groups of regions that differ from the classical, geographic and socio-economic division between the North, Centre and South. Additional in-group analyses were conducted to investigate within-cluster differences. This study will inform a large multilevel stakeholder network for evidence-based policies and their monitoring at both the national and regional levels, in line with the perspective of mainstreaming ageing.