Urbanization, caring for elderly people and the changing African family: The challenge to social policy

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nairn Araba Apt ◽  
Margaret Gricco
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Elderly People

Senior policy in contemporary Poland: declarations and actions

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 103-125
Author(s):  
Adam A. Zych
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Older People ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Retirement Pension ◽  
Half Century ◽  
New Applications

At the beginning of the article an analysis is made about new applications of commonly known terms, such as retirement pension, geriatric, grey or silver tsunami, and “election retirement pensions”, covering among others civic retirement pension, maternal retirement pension, 13th and 14th bonus retirement pension, guaranteed retirement pension and non-taxed retirement pension. There are also presented demographic changes in Poland in the last half-century (1967–2017) and their consequences. Another thematic thread concerns senior policy, its genesis and attempt to defining what it is, and its main goals. Senior policy which is being created in Poland can be successfully implemented on three basic levels: governmental, self-governmental and non-governmental (civic). Activities addressed to seniors can be divided in at least six areas: 1) activity and activation of older people; 2) education; 3) culture and mass media; 4) legislation and legal assistance; 5) social assistance and support, and 6) health and preventive care. This paper discusses examples of activities in the above ranges, and in the final passage of this text we have discussion on the senior policy in contemporary Poland trying to answer vital questions: do we have in Poland social policy addressing the problems of elderly people?, and if the term ‘senior policy’ not a ‘semantic abuse’?

scholarly journals The Disabled and Elderly People in Prerevolutionary and Early Soviet Society: Formation of Disability Model in 1900–1938

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1239-1250
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Kovalev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
General Direction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Inability To Work ◽  
Soviet Russia

The first half of the XX century was the time when the model of disability, the main feature of which was the inability to work, was being formed in Russia. Basing on unknown documents from Siberian archives, this article analyses the transformation of the social status of disabled and elderly people in the pre-revolutionary period and the first decades of the Soviet rule. In the Imperial Russia disability was equal to senility. Any person who was no longer able to work, regardless of age, became elderly. In Soviet Russia the hierarchy of disability developed in accordance with the proletarian ideology. The group of disabled workers who had pensions was the most privileged; they were followed by the groups of disabled veterans, who were rehabilitated by health and labor methods, and homeless people with intellectual disabilities, the deaf, the blind, the elderly disabled, and the senile disabled. The latter group was isolated in homes for the disabled. The general direction of the social policy for all categories of disabled people was employment opportunities in compliance with the principle of «utilization of remaining work». The need in the labor force in the period of industrialization led to the emergence of the phenomenon of «working pensioner». As a result, in Soviet Russia a rationally employing model of disability, which was characterized by disability as the inability to work without the inclusion of other characteristics, was formed. The majority of the disabled were elderly people who were not involved in any type of rehabilitation. State social policy in respect of the disabled focused on their involvement in the labor force, which contributed to their integration into society

scholarly journals The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 – The Failure to Help Vulnerable Children and Elderly People

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Old People ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
The Social ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Policy Measures

AbstractNorway’s handling of COVID-19 has been seen as a success. Vulnerable groups among young and elderly people, have however, not been part of this success. Their interests have been defocused in two ways. First, they have not been prioritized in the big picture, because the precautionary principle and health concerns, in particular the capacity questions, have dominated. Second, the more specific social policy measures have been indirect and not particular targeted vulnerable children, youths and old people, and had negative effects for them, such as social isolation and lack of daily support and services, resulting in increasing problems.

scholarly journals SUPPORTING THE NEEDS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE THROUGH FORMAL AND INFORMAL SUPPORT NETWORKS

2021 ◽  
pp. 122-126
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Dzhuhan ◽  
Ruslana Dzhuhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The State ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
The Social

The relevance of the article is due to the process of progressive aging of the population, so it requires from society to find new ways to work with the elderly and their needs’ realization. The article characterizes the current state of the category of elderly people in Ukrainian society. It is noted that support for the elderly is provided through a variety of resources, for example, formal and informal support networks, volunteering, the state, family, community, and society in general. The formal support network is implemented through the social policy of the state, which is focused on assisting in ensuring the rights of the elderly to their social protection of constitutional rights and freedoms. The aim of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the needs’ realization of the elderly through formal and informal support networks. Research methods applied: generalization − to study the formal network of support, which is implemented through the social policy of the state and focused on constitutional rights for the elderly and social protection; analysis − combining and representing connections of individual elements, parties, components of a complex phenomenon and so in the comprehension of the whole in its components’ unity. The directions of reforming the system of social services are aimed at an authoritative legal framework, where social protection of the elderly would be enshrined at the appropriate level. They includ: deinstitutionalisation through the creation of a wide network of services and facilities that can provide quality services in the community; involvement of non-governmental organizations in the provision of social services; approach of social services to the place of residence; decentralization of management processes, financing, location of services; empowering older people to choose services and participate in the process; increasing the effectiveness of the provision of social services through the study of needs at the individual level and within individual administrative-territorial units; introduction of quality improvement technologies, including monitoring, evaluation and control.

Dependency and Old Age: Theoretical Accounts and Practical Understandings

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Dant
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Recent Commentary ◽  
Research Planning ◽  
Distribution Of Power

ABSTRACTThe concept of dependency is involved in two strands of the literature on old age, and is used in each with a different effect. In the literature on ‘structured dependency’ the concept is used to describe and criticise a relationship between elderly people and the state that is determined by social policy. In the literature on ‘dependency scales’ the concept is used as a basis for categorising elderly people for research, planning and service purposes. More recent commentary on the role of the concept in relation to elderly people suggests that dependency needs to be understood in a fuller way if it is to be useful in understanding the situation of elderly people in contemporary society. This paper develops the idea that dependency refers to a form of relationship characterised by an unequal distribution of power.

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