Monograph aims to contribute to understanding of various aspects of demographic ageing in contemporary societies, besides the pension reform. Discussion raises wider issues of demographic ageing, of how this is manifested in various domains of welfare. To point out the diversity within Europe, most of chapters provide cross national comparisons of EQLS data. We examine the situation of older people , how this is impacted by other social changes and how it is manifested in various domains of quality of life, reaching from health, housing, social contacts and social exclusion to manifestation of diverse risks in daily lives of older people. The monograph presents a possible framework for understanding of problems in ageing society; it can serve both professional and wider audience in informed discussion of problems and possible responses to the chalenges of demographic ageing.
F.24 Improvements to existing system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 255824384The presentation addresses the problem of poverty and social exclusion of elderly in Slovenia. It presents quantitative data on social exclusion of elderly in individual dimensions (health, contacts, income and material deprivation, housing). The main part are the results of a qualitative survey, where coping strategies of elderly are presented. The main foucus was on coping strategies in health area.
F.22 Improvement to existing health/diagnostic methods/procedures
COBISS.SI-ID: 30430301Social support in the case of illness: intergenerational solidarity A cross-sectional study on personal support networks in Slovenia showed the proportion of respondents’ social network that would provide support in the case of illness and could be defined as intergenerational network to be about 35% of the whole support netork in illness. Results are indicating that the actual trends in the changing structure and composition of the family, combined with less support from institutional health and social care, is increasing the care burden of the informal carers within families.
F.22 Improvement to existing health/diagnostic methods/procedures
COBISS.SI-ID: 28080601