The expected, evaluated, perceived, valued, and prevalent social roles of older people : are they by consent?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00100687" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00100687 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6017-5_3" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6017-5_3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6017-5_3" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-981-10-6017-5_3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The expected, evaluated, perceived, valued, and prevalent social roles of older people : are they by consent?

Original language description

This chapter uses the Active Ageing Index as an “operationalisation” of the dominant policy paradigm – active ageing – and compares it with selected results of an analysis of the Eurobarometer Active Ageing survey (2012) and the European Value Study (2008) as sources of information on the perceived roles and contributions of older people in today’s Europe, and on older peoples´ own preferences and prevalent role sets. This comparison provides an answer to the question of whether expected, evaluated, perceived, and valued roles are by consent. The active ageing concept highlights economically and socially productive roles such as worker, volunteer, and care provider, the first two of which are also given the highest weight in the Active Ageing Index measure. However, the surveys show that older people are socially recognised primarily for their contributions as grandparents and providers of support for families. If the preferences of older people themselves are considered, the roles of grandparent, partner, friend, and parent are attributed the highest value. The representative survey “Life roles (2014)” among the Czech young-old has shown that friend, parent, sibling, and partner are the most prevalent roles within their complex role sets. Thus, the overlap between these different points of view is limited. AAI rankings are strongly and positively correlated with the perceived contributions of older people in the volunteer and worker roles, but negatively associated with their level of contribution in the grandparenting role. This discussion calls for strengthening the weight of the social and family roles within the AAI.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-34958S" target="_blank" >GA13-34958S: Role overload: grandparents in the era of active ageing</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies : Active Ageing Index and its Potential

ISBN

9789811060175

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

39-54

Number of pages of the book

470

Publisher name

Palgrave McMillan

Place of publication

Singapore

UT code for WoS chapter

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