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STUDIES AS A PREVENTION OF SOCIAL ISOLATION FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE
Nadežda Hrapkova
; University of the Third Age at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract
The article presents results of the research which have been done at the UTA in Bratislava with the elderly students about their feelings, their attitudes, satisfaction and study motivation in their later life. The research containes also findings and opinions about loneliness and social isolation of elderly students. Studies at UTA can help them accept new conditions in a changing society and get over barriers of isolation and loneliness. Active ageing is very important phenomenon which is not frequent in each society of the elderly and not practice by each individual.
Keywords
Active ageing; Feelings of the elderly students,; Motivation for education; Quality of life; Social isolation of the elderly
Hrčak ID:
103678
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Publication date:
11.6.2010.
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