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• Culture on Prescription in Portugal: cultural experiences promoting health in lonely people and older adults

  11-13

  Juliana Louceiro

  Carina Dantas

  Natália Machado

  Jana Eckert

  Marcel Neumann

  Christiane Schlang

  Christine H. O’ Kelly

  Bart Borsje

  Megtekintések száma:

  71

  Social connections play a vital role in personal well-being. Loneliness, characterized by a lack of meaningful social engagement, has emerged as a significant public health concern in Europe, especially after COVID19 pandemic, when the problem was labelled by the media as a “loneliness epidemic” (Berlingieri et al., 2022). According to Casabianca & Kovacic (2022), older adults are especially vulnerable to loneliness due to all the life transitions and disruptive life events they face. Loneliness is more prevalent among Europeans aged 50 and above in southern and eastern regions (ranging from 31% to 46%) compared to western and northern areas (ranging from 10% to 30%).

• Smart against ageism: an overview of age discrimination in Portugal

  25-29

  Dantas Carina

  Louceiro Juliana

  Machado Natália

  Megtekintések száma:

  90

  Negative stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination on the ground of age, known as “ageism” have been shown to cause cardiovascular stress, lowered levels of self-efficacy and decreased productivity^[1]. Across the EU, policies and practices still reflect ageist prejudices and deprioritise, disregard, or even exclude older adults in different ways.