Education of Older People for Combating Their Loneliness

• Authors: Jana Goriup , Branka Čagran , Katja Krošl
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses education of older people for combating their loneliness, the reasons for it, and its consequences. The current theoretical findings were the reason for the empirical study of the research problem by the authors. In the empirical part, some aspects of the life of older people regarding their residences were compared: among older people living with their relatives, alone, with a partner, or in a retirement home, with special regard to the reasons/causes for residence, and the feeling of loneliness and contacts with relatives. The obtained empirical results showed that older people living alone or in a retirement home are in a worse position compared to those living with relatives or with a partner. The most at risk are older people living alone.

Keywords

EN

education; older people; residence type; reasons/causes for residence; loneliness; contacts.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Technologica Dubnicae
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 21-36

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-06-05

Contributors

author

Jana Goriup

• University of Maribor, Slovenia

author

Branka Čagran

• University of Maribor, Slovenia

author

Katja Krošl

• University of Maribor, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/atd-2015-0030