Abstract
In the changing and developing transforming social structures, the demographic structure is changing; the elderly population is increasing with the reason of development of technology and extension of human life day by day. ‘Aging’ which expressed as the process which from starting to ending of the live, may confront individuals with new problematics. Definition of ‘elderly immigrants’ emerges with the immigration case get involved to process too. Individuals accumulate to social capital during their lives; being ‘I, we’ with this accumulation of social capital; see themselves as a whole with their environment. Especially elderly immigrants, cannot aging in these accumulation social networks; they face with the issues not only posed by aging but also being immigrant as well. In this article, the concepts of aging and agedness, theories of aging and definition of elderly immigration are examined in the light of the literature reviews. In addition to these studies, sources of social support of elderly immigrants to psychosocial functioning effects are get discussed; evaluation is done in the terms of old welfare and suggestions are presented.
Highlights
The modernization of the society increased and demographic change increased with it as well, because of the quantitative increase in the income and qualitative increase in health and education services
While Shakespeare defines old age as a period that physical disabilities come up, mental functions decrease and change in perceptions and behaviours; Goethe describes old age as a period that experiences are at the highest level and states that people who adapt this situation well become active in this period (Kalınkara, 2014, s. 6-7)
According research findings that founded by Karatas and Duyan at April 2002 in Kocatepe Elder Cooperation House in Ankara (Kocatepe Yaşlı Dayanışma Evi-Ankara) with 285 people, despite of 88.5% of old people have at least one child in Ankara, 31.1% of old women and 2.6% old man live alone. 61.1% of old people defined that they face difficulties in daily life and 81.1% of them explained they expressed migration experience (Karataş and Duyan, 2002, p. 80-87)
Summary
The modernization of the society increased and demographic change increased with it as well, because of the quantitative increase in the income and qualitative increase in health and education services This situation increased elder population and augmented problems like related with economic, social, social security and health In the changing and transforming new sociocultural, economic and politic structure, new problems occur In this structure, household compositions change; that structure makes more visible of social change. Elder people who live in rural areas sometimes come to cities for the purposes like taking care about grandchildren and than settle the cities It would not be wrong the say that, losing the status of the elderly decreases with that kind of situations that younger generation seeks help from elders. Despite of perceptions of the aging change in societies, old ages may be seen as “indulging” period with reasons like changes between roles, life activities from active to passive, some discomforts related with physiological decline etc
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