strategy
Ensuring structured participation of elders
Synonyms:
Ensuring participation of the agedInvolving elders
Involving the elderly
Promoting elders' useful engagement
Increasing elders' community involvement
Allowing elders participation
Description:
Developing programmes in which the older generation of a community can participate with other age groups. Broader:
PromotingProviding for ageing peopleAcknowledging community eldersMotivating community involvementRequiring family relationship structure Facilitates:
Conserving social heritageMaintaining community eldersUsing untapped community wisdomTaking responsibility by elders for clanEnhancing personal security of old peopleBreaking down social isolation of the elderly Facilitated by:
Networking the elderlyReinventing elder's rolesDetermining communal rolesProviding elder statesmanshipFocusing local elder interchangeStimulating future interest of the aged Problems:
Social disadvantage of the agedSocial withdrawal of aged
Unmeaningful social roles for the aged
Values:
AgeIncreaseCommunityInvolvementParticipationAnticommunityOverstructuredNonparticipatoryUnderparticipation Subjects:
Society → ElderlySociety → Communities
Social Activity → Participation
Communication → Promotion
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
