Eurosieroctwo seniorów a jakość ich życia – nowe wyzwania dla pedagogiki społecznej

Abstract

Gawel Anna, Madej-Babula Magdalena, Urlinska Maria Marta, Eurosieroctwo seniorow a jakośc ich zycia - nowe wyzwania dla pedagogiki spolecznej (Senior's Euro-Orphanhood and Quality of Life: New Challenges for Social Pedagogy). Studia Edukacyjne nr 32, 2014, Poznan 2014, pp. 135-145. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISBN 978-83-232-2837-0. ISSN 1233-6688 Taking on the issue of the quality of human life at a senior age requires the adoption of a particular perspective to recognizing the phenomenon of old age. It is in fact a phenomenon extremely diverse, multifaceted, involving closely related aspects of the biological, social and psychological, and its course is conditioned by the convolution of a variety of factors. One of them is the emigration of young people, who leave their parents alone in the home country and in fact make them Euro- orphans. Job migration of adult children is a critical event in the lives of seniors and thus has a sig- nificant impact on their life quality. It is treated as a cognitive-emotional category associated with the environmental context of their daily activities. The phenomenon of Euro-orphanhood of seniors generates new lines of research in the field of social pedagogy. Contribution to them is mentioned in the article as a comparative research project.