The challenges associated with the ageing population are important and continuous growth across the world, especially in Europe, the continent with the oldest population. The fundamental objective of active ageing interventions is to optimise opportunities for health, participation and security so as to increase the quality of life of the population with ageing. The Active Ageing Index is a flexible comparative analysis tool that has the mission to help promote and implement active ageing. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of active ageing from the perspective of the active ageing index in the European area. The methodology used consisted of document analysis, study for several countries in the European space such as: Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, Romania, analysis and comparison of statistic data. The results obtained show that the role of this active ageing index is to capture the various facets of active ageing, measuring the contribution of older people (women and men) to economic and social life and to the extent to which the environment in which they live stimulates them in this regard to provide more active participation in employment, social life and to lead independent lives.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of the pandemic on the provision of social services in Romania that have experienced a development only in recent years, so the institutional organization at central level contributed to the elaboration of the first legislative regulations that took into account a number of beneficiaries such as: children in difficulty, the elderly, people with disabilities, users of banned substances and victims of domestic violence. Social services are mainly aimed at people who are in an unfavorable social situation and who cannot have a basic basis for their lives or who urgently need help for other serious reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on social services, with massive outbreaks being reported in all care facilities around the world, affecting not only residents, but also caregivers and visitors .
The physiological limitations and fragility, but also the specific needs of the aging phenomenon, make seniors one of the vulnerable groups benefiting from social services and which together with social insurance benefits have as common purpose to cover the needs and risks associated with old age. Thus, the purpose of the paper is to define and present the system of social services for the elderly in Romania, and among the main objectives is to present the importance of social services for the elderly, the need for social services for seniors, but also to present the typology of social services provided to seniors. The methodology used for this work is the analysis of documents in particular of the legislation in force in Romania. The results obtained from the theoretical study highlight both the necessity of social services for seniors and their importance for ensuring the quality of life of the elderly in our country.
The analysis of the manifestation of the religiosity of the elderly during the pandemic through social networks represents the object of this paper. In order to achieve the purpose of the research carried out involved the use of qualitative research methods the semi-structured interview and the case study, with the objective of having an overall view on this subject, having as a basis the revision of the works in international databases so as to obtain as much truthful information as possible for the scientific approach. In carrying out the qualitative research, 150 elderly people from Romania participated and the case study was carried out in Constanta because the Orthodox Church had an intense activity during the online pandemic. Different understandings of religion, church, and community were analyzed during a pandemic period and support the value of an approach that places debates born in the context of historical precedent, personal experience, and theoretical approaches to networks, communities, religion, and social media.
This paper presents a pilot study conducted at the national level of Romania, which has as main objective the analysis of the quality of life of elderly people during the pandemic period. The sociological survey based on self-administered questionnaire was established as a research method, and for the data collection was developed the working tool adapted to the older people’s quality of life (OPQOL) questionnaire model. In order to have a clear picture of the quality of life of elderly people in Romania during the pandemic period, the following indicators were used in the analysis of the quality of life of elderly people: the status of beneficiary of social services, gender of the elderly, the geographical area in which the elderly person lives, the degree of satisfaction of the quality of life of the elderly, the impact of the pandemic on the lifestyle of the elderly. The participation of elderly people in the study was voluntary and their responses are confidential and are used exclusively for scientific purposes. The questionnaire has three parts, the first being dedicated to a general question, the second part contains 13 closed questions and the last part includes socio-demographic variables regarding the elderly participants in the research are cumulative for the whole sample both for those benefiting from social services, and for those who are not in the records of an institution providing social services. The research involved 306 elderly people aged between 61 and 99 years, the gender of the respondents participating in the research is mostly female, and the living environment is mostly urban and one third of the elderly people participating in the pilot study live alone. The two hypotheses from which quantitative research was based have been confirmed.
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