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• Active Ageing Good Practices Promoting Intergenerational Communication and Understanding

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  Maria Aurora Fenech

  Edel Borg Mizzi

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  Persistent negative stereotypes on the aging process and the older person are noticeable within the current youth-orientated culture. Older persons may also hold negative stereotypes about the younger generation. These undesirable typecasts co-exist because younger and older persons often have limited contact with each other. Indeed, the younger generation, only gets to engage in communication with the older person within the family unit, rarely outside their own familial structures. Similarly, older persons, residents of long-term care have limited opportunities of interacting with the younger generation.

• Introduction

  Ágnes Bene

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  59

  Dear Reader, 

  The Gerontology Days 2021 is the 14th annual scientific conference at the Faculty of Health of the University of Debrecen, which is unique not only because it is the only conference with a long history in this field organised by a Hungarian university, but also it is characterized by the diversity of the disciplines involved and by the diversity of the participants as well.

  In addition to academic researchers, lecturers and PhD students, professionals working in the field of elderly care and supporting for the elderly and other interested people listen to the lectures, participate in discussions, symposia and round tables.

  Thank you very much for the feedback (praise, criticism, suggestion, request) which are sent to us during and after the Conference!

  In this Special Issue of the scientific journal, you can read the abstracts of the lectures given at the Conference.

  First, a short summary of the plenary lecture of Prof. Dr. Miklós Tóth, followed by the extracts of English lectures and abstracts in Hungarian are available on this platform. 

  We are also looking forward to meeting you at the conference of Gerontological Days 2022!

  Ágnes Bene
  Editor of the Special Issue

• Befriending Services for the Elderly

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  Anikó Panna Tóth

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  38

  I would like to briefly introduce befriending services based on a literature review, focusing primarily on services provided to the elderly.

• Összefoglaló - Help wanted? Poviding and Paying for Long term Care. The Impact of Caring on Family Carers

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  85

  Az eredeti jelentést az OECD adta ki 2011-ben.
  Forrás: www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/47884865.pdf

  A jelentésben az OECD a családtagok, rokonok, ismerősök, barátok, szomszédok által nem fizetésért végzett gondozási tevékenységek gazdasági és társadalmi jelentőségére hívja fel a figyelmet a szervezet.

• Elderly Service Officer Trainings

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  Introduction One of the challenges that stands before the aging population is the integration and mental and physical wellbeing of the elderly, and building the culture of active ageing. Meeting this challenge requires the activity of professionals who, in alliance with the work and services of the local governments, will become able to organise programmes that meet the needs and demands of the older citizens.

  This objective is targeted by the Elderly Service Officer Trainings provided by Family-Friendly Country Public Beneficiary Ltd.

  Methods: Our goal is to enable future Elderly Service Officers to actively contribute and enforce lawful practice to preparing, organising and implementing local civil programmes that target active aging; to recognise the special needs of the older citizens; and to orient within the legal environment of the programmes for the elderly. They should become able to co-operate efficiently with local government officials and NGOs supporting active ageing.

  Training topics: 1. Active ageing and mental wellbeing, 2. Community development, networking, volunteering, 3. Environment for active ageing, 4. Planning and implementing elderly friendly programmes.

  As regards to monitoring effectiveness, above activity indicators, we survey the changes of attitudes among trainees, and further activities of the Elderly Service Officers. The effectiveness studies are in progress.

  Results: Since May 2019, 16 study groups with 238 attendees have been launched (11 in Budapest és 5 on the countryside), and 12 groups have finished, yielding 144 certified trainees. We are planning a further set of 23 groups for 2021, in order to achieve the planned number of participants of 1000.

  Discussion: Further development of the training will depend on our future results.

  Supported by: Grant No. EFOP-1.2.6-VEKOP-17-2017-00001, „Family Friendly Country Project.

  References:

  L Patyán, JI Tóth, AM Tróbert, R Wernigg: Methodology to Aid the Community Inclusion and Person-Centered Care of Older Generations. Family-Friendly Country Public Beneficiary Ltd., 2019.

• Self-independence of oncological geriatric patients in the home environment

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  Miroslava Bednáriková

  Réka Zöldi

  Lubica Libová

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  Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases in the world. Family plays an important role in managing this disease. It provides home care for the patient, helps to increase and maintain the patient's self-sufficiency. A number of factors influence the patient's self-sufficiency, such as the age of the patient, the type of illness, the method of treatment, the patient's psychological state, the environment in which the patient is located, etc. Self-sufficiency in patients contributes to their self-esteem and to a positive perception of themselves.

• Association between Personal Well-being, Functional Status, Anxiety, Depression, Social Support and Spiritual Experience of Older Adults living in nursing Homes in Slovakia

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  Mária Sováriová Soósová

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  19

  Satisfaction with life is one of the most important pillars of successful ageing. Assessing the cognitive aspect of subjective well-being (which can be related to life satisfaction) is considered a useful complementary indicator for monitoring and comparing quality of life across countries.

• Association between leisure activities, anxiety, depression and well-being of older adults living in nursing homes in Slovakia

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  Mária Sováriová Soósová

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  Engaging in leisure activities (LA) is associated with physical, psychological and social benefits leading to feelings of happiness, life satisfaction and successful ageing in older adults.

• The correlations of resilience of the geriatric population in Botswana: A cross sectional study

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  Magen Mhaka-Mutepfa

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  According to Botswana's Current statistics for 2021, people aged 60 and above would make up 8.9% of the population. As people age, they face a plethora of challenges; mental, legal, social, health, economic, environmental, and political, in addition to ageism and marginalization. Therefore, they need resilience to deal with these challenges that emanate from the aging process, the development of care needs, and the depletion of resources. However, in Africa, there is anecdotal evidence that some older people cannot cope with their lives, let alone carer responsibilities caused by HIV related death and other risk factors. For older people to flourish, they need resilience to achieve, endure, develop and sustain their health and well-being in the face of adversity. The degree of success and impact on their resilience is undocumented. The research will therefore determine the correlates with resilience and establish ways to curb the risk factors.

• Alzeheimer cafe – the cafe of acceptance: -opinion article-

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  M. Szilvásiné Bojda

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  120

  The article shows the basic principles of the Alzheimer Café movement and it provides information about the fist experiences of the initiated movement in Nyíregyháza town.