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Portuguese working group advocacy for intergenerational policies
— challenges and results | | Author(s) | Marta Goncalves, Alan Hattlon-Yeo, Carla Branco |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 20, no 1, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 30-35 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Advocacy ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young people ; Ageism ; Social policy ; Portugal. |
| Annotation | The authors examine the benefits and challenges of the advocacy group for intergenerational policies that was created in Portugal in 2012, the European Year of Active Ageing and solidarity between Generations. The group conducted 9 closed group meetings every 3 months (average attendance of five members), and 6 public events bringing together researchers, policy makers, practitioners and civil society. The group was established as a response to the various social changes happening in Portugal as a consequence of the ageing population, low-birth rate and migration, leading to the need to explore new responses which are based both on the need to promote active ageing and intergenerational solidarity, and also the importance of family and state support to multigenerational families as a building block to strengthen communities. The paper sets the context of the changing social situation in Portugal, describes the process used through both closed and public meetings to discuss this, and then describes the perspectives of four core groups. Only by pooling resources and thinking intergenerationally will we be able to deliver the opportunities and support that citizens will need to enable them to age well across the life course. Drawing on this and the strong tradition of the family in Portugal it seeks to make the case that an intergenerational approach is essential to the country's future social well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160311203 A |
| Classmark | IQ: BB: SB: B:TOB: TM2: 76T |
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