The intergenerational relationships between the generation of young people and the generation of the elderly constitute the topic of this thesis. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the specifics of generations of young and old people, demographic trends and aspects that have been occuring with an increasing number of seniors. Misunderstanding and intergenerational conflicts belong among the negative consequences of an aging society. In order to prevent intergenerational conflicts, it is necessary to create conditions so that the members of different generations can get to know each other better and comprehend the lifestyle of a different generation. Due to the transformation of the contemporary family - with grandchildren not having an opportunity to be with their grandparents in close contact as much as it used to be in the past - it is necessary to look for new ways to interconnect the worlds of young and old people. A volunteer project focused on an informal intergenerational learning is one of the options. Regarding the empirical part of the paper, it aims to determine whether the implementation of a volunteer project - that involves students as volunteers and seniors as clients of a home for the elderly - may contribute to the intergenerational rapprochement, whether common...

<p>The Mobile phone has contributed to massive changes in the way that human beings communicate with each other and is a technology that is a part of society’s globalization. Opinions differ in the area of user interface where some feel that mobile phones exclude users such as senior citizens or users with an intellectual or a physical disability.</p><p>Universal Design –‘design for all’, is a vision that intends to bring about settings, products and services that suits as many people as possible irrespective of an individual’s needs and prospects. The criteria for ‘design for all’ are among other things flexibility, user friendliness, comprehensibility and a high tolerance for mistakes.</p><p>The purpose of this essay is to investigate the mobile phones graphic user-interface from the theory of a universal design. From this general purpose the study look more closely at senior citizens perspective of mobile phones graphic user-interface. A qualitative study in the form of 4 interviews was used. All of the individuals that participated in the study felt that the mobile phone is a very good and beneficial invention. Mobile phones bring about a feeling of security and safety since it is felt that is always possible to reach family and friends in the event of a crisis. It is difficult to provide a interface that is Universal, because every individual is unique. Every individual has a different opinion on what is Universal Design and what is not. People have different needs of using the mobile phone and that’s one of the reasons why it’s difficult to provide a universal design of the graphical user interface of a mobile phone.</p>

Since October 1999, Kaohsiung City Government has contracted for operating and managing senior-citizen activity centers to eight non-profit organizations. The purpose of the research is to evaluate service performance, service satisfaction and service quality of senior-citizen activity centers and explore the differences between those with contracting and without contracting. The population is the users of 23 senior-citizen activity centers of Kaohsiung City. Using structured questionnaires, face-to face interview and purposive sampling, the data was collected. The results of study revealed: in contracting centers, women had more service satisfaction than men did. The users with lower educational backgrounds had higher service satisfaction. However, in centers without contracting, the high frequency users had higher service satisfaction. Four significant differences were found between centers with or without contracting: ¡§service satisfaction¡¨, ¡§environment and facilities¡¨, ¡§management and administration¡¨ and ¡§service attitude¡¨. The users of contracting centers gave better performance score than the users of centers without contracting. No significant difference was found in ¡§service outcome¡¨. There were five factors influenced the users¡¦ service satisfaction in contracting centers: ¡§environment and facilities¡¨, ¡§management and administration¡¨, ¡§service attitude¡¨, ¡§service outcome¡¨ and ¡§interpersonal relationships¡¨. These five factors explained 75% variance of the regression model. However, in centers without contracting, three factors influenced the users¡¦ service satisfaction: ¡§management and administration¡¨, ¡§service attitude¡¨ and ¡§interpersonal relationship¡¨. These three factors explained 72% variance of the regression model. Furthermore, the researcher ranked the scores of service performance of the eight contracting centers and compared them with the rank list evaluated by Bureau of Social Affairs in 2004. The comparative results were not the same. It indicated that higher grade evaluated by Bureau is not necessarily got the higher levels of service performance and satisfaction experienced by users. At last, according to the results of the study, researcher provided practical guidance for policy considerations by municipal managers and administrators.

The Mobile phone has contributed to massive changes in the way that human beings communicate with each other and is a technology that is a part of society’s globalization. Opinions differ in the area of user interface where some feel that mobile phones exclude users such as senior citizens or users with an intellectual or a physical disability. Universal Design –‘design for all’, is a vision that intends to bring about settings, products and services that suits as many people as possible irrespective of an individual’s needs and prospects. The criteria for ‘design for all’ are among other things flexibility, user friendliness, comprehensibility and a high tolerance for mistakes. The purpose of this essay is to investigate the mobile phones graphic user-interface from the theory of a universal design. From this general purpose the study look more closely at senior citizens perspective of mobile phones graphic user-interface. A qualitative study in the form of 4 interviews was used. All of the individuals that participated in the study felt that the mobile phone is a very good and beneficial invention. Mobile phones bring about a feeling of security and safety since it is felt that is always possible to reach family and friends in the event of a crisis. It is difficult to provide a interface that is Universal, because every individual is unique. Every individual has a different opinion on what is Universal Design and what is not. People have different needs of using the mobile phone and that’s one of the reasons why it’s difficult to provide a universal design of the graphical user interface of a mobile phone.

The thesis deals with problems connected with the placement of senior citizens into homes for the elderly. The objectives of the thesis are to find out how long the waiting period for the placement into a home for senior citizens is and which obstacles and problems connected with the placement into homes for the elderly appear. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on some demographic trends, the opinion of the Czech population about the old age and senior citizens, history of social services for senior citizens in the Czech Republic and abroad, and the current offer of social services for senior citizens. In this part, I also describe the process of placing of senior citizens into homes for the elderly and the services which homes for the elderly offer to their clients; I also focus on the senior citizens´ financial reimbursement of board and lodging in homes for the elderly. The research was conducted by means of quantitative and qualitative methods and techniques. In the qualitative research, I deal with the second part of my goal identifying obstacles to placement in homes for the elderly. Firstly, I set the following research questions: 1) What are the obstacles and problems in the process of placing senior citizens into homes for the elderly? and 2) Do senior citizens have any other options of care instead of the care in homes for the elderly? Then, I conducted semi-standardized interviews with 3 social workers, 8 senior citizens and with 3 members of families which put their senior citizens into homes for the elderly. I asked all of them almost identical questions to be able to compare their responses later. The results show that nowadays, dependent senior citizens who have no other option of care are more likely to be placed into homes for the elderly. The answers to the question "What are the obstacles and problems when placing senior citizens into homes for the elderly?" were rather variable and they cannot be generalized. The quantitative part of my research relates to the first part of my goal. Here I primarily focused on the waiting period. The following two hypotheses were set for the research. H1: Senior citizens negatively evaluate the waiting period for their placement into homes for the elderly. H2: Senior citizens know only one possibility of care homes for the elderly. To verify the above hypotheses, I used the method of secondary analysis of the data taken from the client's documentation and the method of controlled conversation. Therefore, I conducted my research in the following homes for the elderly: Home for the elderly Light in Písek, Home for the elderly Bechyně, Home for the elderly Diaconia Centre ČCE Blanka in Písek, Home for the elderly Centre for Social Assistance Vodňany. Social workers in each facility advised me to use the greatest possible number of clients who were oriented and able to answer my questions. In total, I analyzed 100 files of personal documentation and then I conducted the structured interviews with the analysed clients in the homes for the elderly which are mentioned above. The average waiting period was 243 days. In the category of the waiting period shorter than 1 month there were 26 senior citizens; from 1 to 2 months 33 senior citizens; from 3 to 4 months 11 senior citizens; longer than 5 months 30 senior citizens. 79 senior citizens rated their waiting periods positively, but 21 senior citizens rated their waiting periods negatively. 56 senior citizens had some knowledge about other possibilities of care; most of them reported the nursing service (54 responses); homes with nursing (8 responses); personal assistance (3 responses); pensions for senior citizens (1 response).

Orientador: Antonia Dalla Pria Bankoff / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T18:13:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GallardoGreen_OrlandoSantiago_M.pdf: 294982 bytes, checksum: 5ea6fc1a4ecca7e9d25a0c8e4205568d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: O objetivo do presente estudo foi medir a Resistência Aeróbica através do Teste de Mazorra Zamora em adultas maiores, da cidade de Concepción¿Coronel - Chile, onde a mostra foi de pessoas voluntárias, selecionadas de um grupo de Ginástica para o Adulto Maior Ativas de: Caminho Olavarría integrada por 5 senhoras; um grupo de Ginástica do Departamento de Educação Física da Universidade de Concepción, integrada por 15 senhoras; outro grupo pertecente ao Consultório Víctor Manuel Fernández integrado por 24 senhoras e um grupo de 18 adultas maiores sedentárias do Club ¿San Francisco de Asís¿ de Coronel e uma adulta maior sedentária voluntária de Concepción. O Teste aplicado se caracteriza por dar resultados em distância recorrida num tempo predeterminado. Por otro lado, se utilizou estatística descritiva de média, desviação estándar e nível para caracterizar aos grupos e a aplicação da fórmula ¿t de student¿ que permitiu ratificar que há diferença significativa entre adultos maiores que praticam atividade física e aqueles adultos maiores que não praticam atividade física / Abstract: The target of the present study was to measure the Aerobic Resistance by means of the Mazorra-Zamora Test in senior citizens of the city of Concepción-Coronel ¿ Chile. The sample was made up of volunteers. The people were chosen from a Gymnastics-for-the-Active-Elderly group in the Camilo Olavarría neighbourhood (6 women); a Gymnastics Group from the Department of Physical Education of the University of Concepción (15 women); a group from the Víctor Manuel Fernández Health Care Center (24 women); a group of sedentary elderly women (18) from the San Francisco de Asís Club in the city of Coronel; and one volunteer, elderly, sedentary woman from the city of Concepción. The Test applied is characterized by its results given in reference to a certain distance covered in a predetermined period of time. On the other hand, average descriptive statistics, standard deviation and rank were used to characterize the groups and the application of the ¿t of student¿ Test, which allowed the substantiation that there is significant difference between seniors citizens engaged in physical activity and those who are not engaged in physical activity / Mestrado / Ciencia do Desporto / Mestre em Educação Física

Orientador: Plácida L. V. Amorim da Costa Santos / Banca: Maria Helena T.C. de Barros / Banca: Maria Cândida Soares Del-Masso / Resumo: Com o início do novo milênio, o Brasil passa por profundas transformações na sociedade. Estima-se que, em 2025, a cada cinco brasileiros um terá 60 anos. Os jovens de hoje estão preparados para lidarem com as novas tecnologias. No entanto, as gerações anteriores, consideradas atualmente da Terceira Idade, não tiveram esta formação e estão vivendo numa sociedade altamente informatizada. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivos: Caracterizar o usuário potencial da Terceira Idade, quanto ao uso da Internet nos grupos da UNATI-UEL e do SENAC-Londrina; Identificar a utilização da Internet por usuários da Terceira Idade; Verificar se a Terceira Idade está familiarizada com a Internet e Detectar os sentimentos e aspirações dos usuários da Terceira Idade diante da Internet. A metodologia utilizada nesta pesquisa foi de estudo de caso, sob um enfoque quantitativo-qualitativo. Utilizamos questionário com perguntas abertas e fechadas, diferentes para cada instituição estudada. Os resultados obtidos nos permitem concluir que: 1) ambos os grupos pesquisados compreendem a importância da utilização da Internet nos dias de hoje; 2) esta oferece maior facilidade e comodidade na realização de suas tarefas diárias; 3) traz informação e estimula a criatividade. / Abstract: With the beginning of the new millennium, the Brazilian society is being transformed. It is believed that, by the year 2025, one in five Brazilian citizens will be 60 years old. The youngsters are prepared to deal with new technologies but the previous generations, which are currently considered to be the elderly, are not. In fact, they live in a society which is highly technological. Based on these facts, the purposes of this research are: to characterize the potential elderly user as for the use of the Internet in UNATI - UEL and SENAC - Londrina groups; to identify the use of the Internet by the elderly; to verify if the elderly are familiarized with the Internet and to detect their feelings and aspirations towards the Internet. The methodology used in this research was the case study under a qualitative-quantitative focus. A different questionnaire with open-ended and multiple choice questions was used for each institution studied in this research. The results obtained led us to the following conclusions: 1) both groups understand the importance of the use of the Internet nowadays; 2) it is easier and more comfortable for them to accomplish their daily tasks with the Internet; 3) the Internet brings information and stimulates creativity. / Mestre

Cyber-attacks on Internet users have caused billions of dollars in losses annually. Cybercriminals launch attacks via threat vectors such as unsecured wireless networks and phishing attacks on Internet users who are usually not aware of such attacks. Senior citizens are one of the most vulnerable groups who are prone to cyber-attacks, and this is largely due to their limited cybersecurity awareness and skills. Within the last decade, there has been a significant increase in Internet usage among senior citizens. It was documented that senior citizens had the greatest rate of increase in Internet usage over all the other age groups during the past decade. However, whenever senior citizens use the Internet, they are being targeted and exploited particularly for financial crimes, with estimation that one in five becoming a victim of financial fraud, costing more than $2.6 billion per year. Increasing the cybersecurity awareness and skills levels of Internet users have been recommended to mitigate the effects of cyber-attacks. However, it is unclear what motivates Internet users, particularly senior citizens, to acquire cybersecurity skills so that they can identify as well as mitigate the effects of the cyber-attacks. It is also not known how effective cybersecurity awareness training are on the cybersecurity skill level of senior citizens. Therefore, the main goal of this quantitative study was to empirically investigate the factors that contributed to senior citizens’ motivation to acquire cybersecurity skills so that they would be able to identify and mitigate cyber-attacks, as well as assess their actual cybersecurity skills level. This was done by assessing a model of contributing factors identified in prior literature (senior citizens’ cybersecurity awareness, computer self-efficacy, perceived risk of identity theft, & older adults’ computer technology attitude) on the motivation of senior citizens to acquire cybersecurity skills. This study utilized a Web-based survey to measure the contributing factors and a hands-on scenarios-based iPad app called MyCyberSkills™ that was developed and empirically validated in prior research to measure the cybersecurity skills level of the senior citizens. All study measures were done before and after cybersecurity awareness training (pre- & post-test) to uncover if there were any differences on the assessed models and scores due to such treatment. The study included a sample of 254 senior citizens with a mean age of about 70 years. Path analyses using Smart PLS 3.0 were done to assess the pre- and post-test models to determine the contributions of each contributing factor to senior citizens’ motivation to acquire cybersecurity skills. Additionally, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) using SPSS were done to determine significant mean difference between the pre-and post-test levels of the senior citizens’ cybersecurity skill level. The path analysis results indicate that while all paths on both models were significant, many of the paths had very low path coefficients, which in turn, indicated weak relationships among the assessed paths. However, although the path coefficients were lower than expected, the findings suggest that both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, along with antecedents such as senior citizens’ cybersecurity awareness, computer self-efficacy, perceived risk of identity theft, and older adults’ computer technology attitude significantly impact the cybersecurity skill levels of senior citizens. The analysis of variance results indicated that there was a significant increase in the mean cybersecurity skills scores from 59.67% to 64.51% (N=254) as a result of the cybersecurity awareness training. Hence, the cybersecurity awareness training was effective in increasing the cybersecurity skill level of the senior citizens, and empowered them with small but significant improvement in the requisite skills to take mitigating actions against cyberattacks. The analysis of covariance results indicated that, except for years using computers, all the other demographic indicators were not significant. Contributions from this study add to the body of knowledge by providing empirical results on the factors that motivate senior citizens to acquire cybersecurity skills, and thus, may help in reducing some of the billions of dollars in losses accrued to them because of cyber-attacks. Senior citizens will also benefit in that they will be better able to identify and mitigate the effects of cyber-attacks should they attend cybersecurity awareness trainings. Additionally, the recommendations from this study can be useful to law enforcement and other agencies that work with senior citizens in reducing the number of cases relating to cybersecurity issues amongst senior citizens, and thus, free up resources to fight other sources of cybercrime for law enforcement agencies.

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The thesis called 'Individual planning and its effect on activation in retirement homes' is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part discusses the old age and the changes and problems that can accompany it. Further it deals with senior people's needs and the basic principles of communication with elderly people. The second chapter focuses on retirement homes as a social service. The third chapter describes the importance and the process of individual planning. The last chapter of the theoretical part contains information about activating people in retirement homes, its possibilities and importance. The practical part shows the use of individual plans and biographical sheets of retirement homes' clients in practice. It contains case histories of senior citizens and examples of documentation. The aim of the work is to link the theory with practical findings, to describe the importance of individual planning and its connection to all the elements of care, and to describe the positive effects of activation and individual approach in working with elderly people. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)