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Special geragogy in an aging society – needs and possibilities
Marlena Kilian
Abstract
Due to the progression of European societies’ aging process, treatment, rehabilitation, and daily care for an increasing population of disabled persons in older age become one of the most critical social problems. Pedagogy for special needs has the potential to respond to this issue in its scientific, didactic, and vocational domain by recognizing and meeting the specific needs of older adults with disabilities. Within its specialty - special geragogy - may deal with effective prevention and improvement of functional disorders in older adults and thus reduce their negative individual and social consequences. Contemporary problems of aging societies require special education to include within its interests the issue of disability at every stage of life. The purpose of this article is to justify the need for the development of special geragogy in the area of science, education, and practice.
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special geragogy, old age, disability, age-related disability, aging societiesDetails
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