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  • Sociology
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Active ageing is crucial for individual well-being and societal contribution, especially amid demographic shifts.
  • It encompasses successful ageing, life satisfaction, and leveraging older adults' competencies as societal human capital.
  • Generativity, a psychological construct, is framed within joint responsibility, intergenerational solidarity, and equity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elucidate the significance of active ageing from individual and societal viewpoints.
  • To explore the psychological construct of generativity as an aspect of joint responsibility.
  • To support initiatives improving generativity through intergenerational dialogue.

Main Methods:

  • Empirical research linking activity in later years to positive self-perception and life satisfaction.
  • Analysis of older adults' life competencies as societal human capital.
  • Implementation and support of local initiatives for intergenerational dialogue in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

Main Results:

  • Maintaining access to the public sphere and engaging with others are fundamental individual concerns for active ageing.
  • Research supports the notion that active engagement is more basic than a life-stage specific developmental task.
  • A Dialogue Forum Project successfully aimed to improve generativity in Eastern Europe.

Conclusions:

  • Active ageing is vital for individual success and societal progress, emphasizing generativity and intergenerational connection.
  • Societal structures should facilitate older adults' continued engagement and contribution.
  • Intergenerational dialogue initiatives are effective in fostering generativity and responsibility.