Educational activity as the key indicator of active participation in social life of the people in their late adulthood

Abstract

The main idea of the article has been to stress the necessity of considering the old age and ageing as such in terms of dynamic ageing process of the societies as well as to demonstrate the ways and initiatives to encourage, stimulate and to initiate launching various forms of activity by OAPs, especially the educational activity which should considerably facilitate bringing those people back to active life in the society. The analyses presented are theoretical and empirical in nature. The first part of the article covers the importance of senior citizens being active in terms of getting adapted to the old age and successful ageing as well as educational activity of senior citizens, as compared with other types of activity and its significance in active participation in social life by the elderly as reported in the applicable literature. Theoretical consideration shave been extended with the analysis of selected results of own research reported by the author into taking up educational and professional activity by senior-age people in the Kujawy and Pomorze Province. The entire article has been an attempt at demonstrating how important it is to consider the OAPs getting involved in educational activity and how much strongly it is connected with getting adapted to the old age, and thus activating senior citizens to launch various actions to facilitate the adaptation and getting used to the constantly changing reality.