Annual of social work, Vol. 7 No. 1, 2000.
Original scientific paper
A COMMUNITY FOR THE THIRD AGE
Boris Hudina
Abstract
The term condominium comes from the Latin con+dominum (co+ownership), which makes up co-ownership, the joint ownership mainly of an immovable property, but in practice it usually means the ownership of separate parts of an immovable property – flats. A condominium also designates an area, a settlement, designed exclusively for people belonging to the third age. The specific feature of such a community is relative homogeneity, and the existence of a range of activities and forms of assistance, like health-care, social, cultural and entertainment activities, and other services, which can sometimes become indispensable in old age.
Besides a feeling of material independence and care, health security, the feeling of being useful in the sense of being able to leave material possessions to one’s heirs, life in a condominium gives to the elderly a lasting sense of existence, a motivation for remaining active and taking care of themselves. By accepting a way of life that is common elsewhere, and through the building of the first condominium as a community in Croatia, one part of the third age population will gain an interesting alternative to the only choice they have had so far – the institutionalisation of the elderly.
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3739
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Publication date:
15.12.2000.
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