Learning as a positive aging strategy

Abstract

This paper presents the problem of older people’s learning regarded as a positive aging strategy, according to the positive aging concept by Robert D. Hill. The growing population of older people in Poland generates the need to seek new solutions on how to deal with the subjective and social aging and the old age. In Poland, despite the fact that some good activities have been already emerging, there are still no system solutions in the area of : social welfare, health care, labor activity, cultural and educational activities targeted at the elderly, especially the oldest. What dominates is the economic perspective of looking at the problems of an aging society. The media promotes youth and consumerist lifestyles that are not conducive to positive perceptions of aging and older people. Learning is treated as a strategic action taken for positive aging. It includes three important components: the essence of learning in old age, the relations between positive aging and learning, and learning in the case of illness and long-term care. The older people’s learning in addition to the invaluable benefits for the person, increases the social productivity and expands social capital of the older generation.

Keywords

• pozytywne starzenie się
• strategie pozytywnego starzenia się
• uczenie się osób starszych
• produktywność społeczna ludzi starszych