The British School of Social Gerontology: A Bibliographical Review of a Publication Project

How to minimize infectious health risks for elderly people (based on focus group data)

“…A lot of support is given to an idea to develop clubs for elderly people (retired freelancers) where they, on one hand, can develop some new skills, for example, computer ones, or become more physically active, but on the other hand, they can help other people doing what is within their power and getting paid for it. There are works in literature where their authors state that it is advisable to develop city infrastructure for leisure, labor, and social activities of elderly people; it is important to preserve social capital of elderly people (including their neighbors) [33]. Some experts established a correlation between social isolation and poor health [34,35], examined peculiarities of communicative therapy applied to treat dementia, rules and standards of talking to elderly people [36], and described attitudes towards aging prevention [37].…”