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Mackowicz, Jolanta; Wnek-Gozdek, Joanna – Educational Gerontology, 2016
In the face of the ageing of society, the concept of active ageing has become a key problem within European politics. (United Nations, 2002; European Commission, 2006). In recent years, the University of Third Age (U3A) movement has developed very quickly both within Poland and outside our country. In this article, we consider the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Quality of Life
Walker, Joanna, Ed. – 1996
This text makes explicit the links between education and gerontology and the academic base for preretirement education. "Concepts of Retirement in Historical Perspective" (Joanna Walker) looks at retirement as the following: event, period, social institution, the Third Age, a life stage, productive aging, and a subject of industrial gerontology.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Age Discrimination