Social Gerontology

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Course ID:	08-PCDL-GSP
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.5 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0921) Care of the elderly and of disabled adults The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Social Gerontology
Name in Polish:	Gerontologia społeczna
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty dla 4 semestru pracy socjalnej
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
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Short description:	SUBJECT AND INTERESTS OF GERONTOLOGY IN RELATION TO OTHER DISCIPLINES: research area. AGEING OF SOCIETIES: demographic characteristics of ageing population and measurement criteria, risk groups, consequences of ageing societies. THEORIES OF AGING: biological and social theories. INTERDISCIPLINARY CHARACTER OF THE PROBLEMS OF AGEING AND OLD AGE. : criteria of old age, basic physiological, psychological and social changes. INDIVIDUAL DIMENSION OF AGEING: personality, intelligence, learning and memory, stress factors, disease and disability, developmental tasks for elderly people; atrophy of opportunities, elderly people's attitude towards old age. ELDERLY PEOPLE AND SOCIETY: old age in the value system, stereotypes and attitudes towards the elderly, lost of important social roles, determinants of lowering status of the oldest generation, seniors in social structure, social devices in care of the elderly.
Full description:	1. Performing the cognitive function: presenting the place of gerontology among other academic disciplines (including sociology), presenting the subject of ageing and old age in its biological, psychosocial and behavioral; applying sociological terms and categories to describe and explain phenomena and processes related to ageing, specifying the role of the elderly in society and conditioning of everyday life of the elderly and their participation in social life. 2. Preparing professional tools for the need of social practice: providing information necessary to build measuring and descriptive tools to analyze the situation of the elderly in their social lives, providing knowledge needed for the analysis of social position and study of the efficiency of the elderly made by specialists of public health, sociologists, social workers, etc. 3. Social education: crossing the old age paradigm based on common knowledge, stereotypes and social myths concerning ageing and the elderly, which may result not only in understanding the deficits, but first of all the potential of the elderly and rules of functional and active old age.
Bibliography:	Recommended reading: 1. PROBLEMY LUDZI STARYCH, Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, Rok LXI, zeszyt 1/1999. 2. Zbigniew Woźniak, TERAŹNIEJSZOŚĆ I PERSPEKTYWY POLITYKI SPOŁECZNEJ ADRESOWANEJ DO SENIORÓW NA TLE PROCESU GLOBALIZACJI STARZENIA SIĘ, tom materiałów pokonferencyjnych pod red. M. Ziółkowskiego, Poznań 2002. 3. Zb. Woźniak, NAJSTARSI Z POZNAŃSKICH SENIORÓW. Jesień życia w perspektywie gerontologicznej, Poznań 1997. 4. Zb. Woźniak, PROBLEMY STARZENIA SIĘ I STAROŚCI WYZWANIEM DLA POLITYKI SPOŁECZNEJ NA PROGU III TYSIĄCLECIA., Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, Rok LXI, zeszyt 1/1999. 5. L. Leońska, Z. Woźniak (red.), PROFILE STAROŚCI, , Poznań 2000. 6. J. T Kowaleski, P. Szukalski (red.), NASZE STARZEJĄCE SIĘ SPOŁECZEŃSTWO. NADZIEJE I ZAGROŻENIA, Łódź 2004. Further reading: K. Wiśniewska-Roszkowska, GERONTOLOGIA DLA PRACOWNIKÓW SOCJALNYCH, Warszawa 1982 Zych, CZŁOWIEK WOBEC STAROŚCI, Biblioteka Pracownika Socjalnego, Warszawa 1995. B. Rysz-Kowalczyk, SPOŁECZNE KWESTIE STAROŚCI, Warszawa 1991. B. Synak, T. Wróblewski, POSTĘPY GERONTOLOGII, Warszawa 1988. L. Frąckiewicz, KARTA PRAW CZŁOWIEKA STAREGO, Warszawa 1985. M. Halicka, SATYSFAKCJA ŻYCIOWA LUDZI STARYCH, Białystok 2004. 7. M. Halicka, J. Halicki (red.), ZOSTAWIĆ ŚLAD NA ZIEMI, Białystok 2006. IMPORTANT: students get a CD with didactic material prepared by the lecturer.

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