AGE

We are facing the fact that the European Union population structure is changing and becoming older. In our society, with its increasing gap between generations and with its shrinking opportunities to care for elderly, it becomes more important to enable elderly to increase their social participations and health. Indeed, it is clear that realizing elderly full potential after retirement will lead to that we all can lead more interesting and fulfilling lives longer with a better chance of more active, healthy and independent circumstances. The fundamental questions addressed by the project were firstly, how we ensure the participation of elderly in society, improving their quality of life by giving them better opportunities for active ageing and secondly how can we strengthen solidarity between generations. The partners acknowledged that the solution is to enhance the cooperation between municipalities, NGOs and different volunteer organizations and to increase communication between local authorities in order to have more political support for activities and projects at local level.