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Best practises employing and activization seniors

50+ Actively. Best practises employing and activization seniors. What and why ?. Serching for the best examples in employing, activization and volunteering of the elderly in EU

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Best practises employing and activization seniors

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  1. 50+ Actively Best practisesemploying and activization seniors

  2. Whatandwhy? • Serching for thebest examples in employing, activization and volunteering of theelderly in EU • Motto: „Ageing of our population should not be perceived as problem. It is a challenge with great potential. We should just know how to deal with it! • How to use potential of senior citizens? • The aimof project and workshop is to share: • Knowledge and experiece • Ideas that could work • Contacts and future cooperation

  3. 50+ Actively Report fromtheCzechRepublic

  4. Situation in theCzechRepublic- Programmesfocused on employment • Lack of activities focused on employment of employeesover 50 (no special programmes for unemployed population over 50) • Czech companies – no support for older employees, no special programmes for education, no policies towards older employees • Offer of training courses by Bureaus of Labour • Case study of Liberec Bureau of labour • Offer of short-time programmefor people over 50 to assist them in finding work • Psychologicalassistance • Training for job applications, job interview, etc.

  5. Situation in theCzechRepublic- Programmesfocused on freetime • Mostly self-organized free time activities (walking, tours, knitting, etc.) • Mainly designed just for seniors • Positive effect: decrease of exclusion and isolation of theelderly, social contacts with peers • Case study – Exchange of mutual help • Potential of elderly: skills and knowledge • Reciprocity • Open for all generation • Active ageing

  6. Situation in theCzechRepublic- Programmesfocused on volunteering • Volunteeringin neighborhood • Not any special organization for elderly volunteers • Volunteering is still perceived mostly as an activity for young people or charity work • Seniors are interested in volunteering and public beneficing activities • Case study of Skauting • Contact between young and old generation – tolerance and understanding (x stereotypes) • Positive usage of skills and wisdom of elderly and their transfer to youngpeople • Active ageing

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