Active ageing in CIS countries: semantics, challenges, and responses
Active ageing in CIS countries: semantics, challenges, and responses
Although the CIS countries are connected together by the legacy of breaking away from the Soviet Union, they have had a distinctive transition course and are rather diverse in terms of the population ageing challenges and policy responses in place. The commonality is that a comprehensive national strategy on ageing is lacking, and many of necessary reforms were put aside owing to political uncertainties, lack of societal consensus, and financial instability. The notion of active ageing is associated with the term “accelerated ageing,” which is understood to be an individual living a life under harsh living conditions or a society experiencing rapid increases in the relative number of older persons, and therefore it carries a negative connotation. Yet, in the same spirit as the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012, the CIS countries have initiated sectoral programmes towards enhancing employment of older workers, social participation of older people in the society in a wider sense and also measures promoting health and independent living of older persons.
261819-[17pp]
Sidorenko, Alexandre
4140e234-9585-41ce-bb51-18cb5fd73e6a
Zaidi, Asghar
c0e9133f-e3da-47ed-8cd6-2473386bddf4
2013
Sidorenko, Alexandre
4140e234-9585-41ce-bb51-18cb5fd73e6a
Zaidi, Asghar
c0e9133f-e3da-47ed-8cd6-2473386bddf4
Sidorenko, Alexandre and Zaidi, Asghar
(2013)
Active ageing in CIS countries: semantics, challenges, and responses.
Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, 2013, .
(doi:10.1155/2013/261819).
Abstract
Although the CIS countries are connected together by the legacy of breaking away from the Soviet Union, they have had a distinctive transition course and are rather diverse in terms of the population ageing challenges and policy responses in place. The commonality is that a comprehensive national strategy on ageing is lacking, and many of necessary reforms were put aside owing to political uncertainties, lack of societal consensus, and financial instability. The notion of active ageing is associated with the term “accelerated ageing,” which is understood to be an individual living a life under harsh living conditions or a society experiencing rapid increases in the relative number of older persons, and therefore it carries a negative connotation. Yet, in the same spirit as the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012, the CIS countries have initiated sectoral programmes towards enhancing employment of older workers, social participation of older people in the society in a wider sense and also measures promoting health and independent living of older persons.
Text
__userfiles.soton.ac.uk_Users_nsc_mydesktop_Sidorenko and Zaidi 2013 Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research.pdf
- Version of Record
More information
Published date: 2013
Organisations:
Gerontology
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 347019
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/347019
ISSN: 1687-7063
PURE UUID: a6f0f58c-2803-48e0-bdaf-c5dbe9f7eb40
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 15 Jan 2013 12:05
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 12:44
Export record
Altmetrics
Contributors
Author:
Alexandre Sidorenko
Author:
Asghar Zaidi
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics