New Educational Strategies Regarding Quality of Life for Elderly People

Abstract

There is an acknowledged tendency in nowadays Romania that there is a demographic aging of population i.e. a phenomenon that the western countries already deal with. This study presents challenges of contemporary society, the growing needs of the elderly people and proposes adaptive strategies used in adult education. In this respect, strategies to educate elderly people regarding social-medical need to be found in order to improve their quality of life. Social pedagogy can bring a significant contribution by adapting the pedagogic methods of teaching adults to the new informatics and communication technologies. The necessity of medical services and social protection is not determined by a high rate of persons of a certain age or older, but by other much more relevant factors such as progress, technology, the increasing complexity of co-morbidity correlated to age. All social actors have to take part and concentrate their efforts in order to ease and improve the mechanism of maintaining the adult in his family. The social policies in the area of elderly social protection need to foresee the development of complex programmes of adults’ education by promoting certain proactive attitudes regarding the prolonged behaviour and psychological-social-medical care at home. Where there is a possibility, the public and private suppliers would take care of these needs.