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Vision on Age Age as Resource – Age as Challenge – Age as Asset Healthy Ageing in a European Perspective

Klaus D. Plümer

Imagine ...

Mini Symposium 'Healthy Ageing in a European Perspective' Wageningen: 14 June 2011

Imagine there's no countries It isn‘t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will live as one

John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band

Areas of Action across the Life Course


Fair Society,

Healthy Lives

The Marmot Review

page 20

Stereotypes & Images of Age


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age-related images changing

living community of people who are

suffering from dementia

www.3sat.de/page/?source=/scobel/154448/index.html

Republic of Elderlies

The cultural construction of physical and social ageing

  The modern sociological construction of 'lifecourse' is fluid, labile and essentially interactive between people and their environments. (Riley 1988)

  Health related behaviour of any individual is the product of a complex interweaving of biographical, social and cultural threads. Any one person's pattern of activity in relation to their diet, drinking, smoking and exercise is situated in a framework unique to that individual. (637)

Wageningen: 14 June 2011 Mini Symposium 'Healthy Ageing in a European Perspective'

Kathryn C. Backett and Charlie Davison: Lifecourse and Lifestyle: The Social and Cultural Location of Health Behaviours, Soc. Sci. Med. Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 629-638, 1995

The cultural construction of physical and social ageing

  The lay perception of 'Lifestyle’, means the cultural construction of bodily ageing and the social organization of an individual’s passage through life, is "more grounded in historical, environmental and biographical contents." (632)

  Therefore, "it is important for health promotion to work with rather than against cultural norms and every day principles of social organisation”. (629)


Kathryn C. Backett and Charlie Davison: Lifecourse and Lifestyle: The Social and Cultural Location of Health Behaviours, Soc. Sci. Med. Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 629-638, 1995



I am getting old - so what?!

http://top.de/826I-Ich-werde-alt-na-und

Stereotypes & Images of Age Gunter Sachs, age 78


* 14. November 1932 † 7. Mai 2011

www.tagesschau.de (Foto: REUTERS)

(Foto: picture-alliance/ dpa/dpaweb)

Human System & Ecosystem


The Happy Planet Index 2.0

GDP versus

Gross National Happiness

Playgrounds for Seniors: A Fun and Practical

Idea Gets the Elderly in Motion ?!?


www.trendhunter.com/trends/ playgrounds-for-the-elderly

www.playfit.de/fitnessparks.html

Playgrounds for Seniors: A Fun and Practical

Idea Gets the Elderly in Motion ?!?


www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-511253/ Playtime-Grandma-Council-opens-new-playground-60s.html

Manchester Playtime for Grandma: Council opens new playground for the over-60s 02 February 2008

Five Ways to Wellbeing

Connect ...

Be active ...

Take notice ...

Keep learning ...

Give ... Mini Symposium 'Healthy Ageing in a European Perspective' Wageningen: 14 June 2011

A report presented to the Foresight Project

on communicating the evidence base for

improving people’s well-being

centre for well-being, nef

Action for Change and enhance Wellbeing


they play an

essential role in

satisfying needs

for positive

relationships,

autonomy,competency

and security

Fair Society, Healthy Lives Rise up with me against the organisation of misery


Policy Objective D

Ensure a healthy standard of living for all

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Pablo Neruda

Lifelong Learning – Policy Objective for a Fair Society


Policy Objective B Enable all children, young people and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives

Increasing availability of non-vocational lifelong learning across the life course.

Improve the access and use of quality lifelong learning across the social gradient.

Conceptual Framework of a Fair Society Policy Strategy


Fair Society,

Healthy Lives

The Marmot Review

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DIVIDE ET IMPERA


Divide and Rule The concept refers to a strategy that breaks up existing power structures and prevents smaller power groups from linking up

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_et_impera (9 June 2011)

INDIGNEZ-VOUS! Engagez-vous!


To create is to resist. To resist is to create.

Stéphane Hessel age 93

Stéphane Hessel (* 20. October 1917) Diplomat & Poet, former French Résistance Fighter

Fritz Hellwig the oldest still living member of the German parliament – age 98


Straitjackets

and Muzzles.

The state has only two models:

Fritz Hellwig (* 3. August 1912), Economist and Historian, former European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science

The Empathic Civilization The Age of Reason is being eclipsed by the Age of Empathy

  Are we 'a fundamentally empathic species'?

  Will this 'necessitate a fundamentally rethinking of our philosophical, economic, and social models’?


Jeremy Rifkin (2009) The Empathic Civilization


  Each more sophisticated communications revolution brings together more diverse people in increasingly more expansive and dense social networks. (37)

  In networks, optimizing the interest of others increases one's own assets and value. Cooperation bests competition. Sharing risks and open-source collaboration, rather than Machiavellian-inspired intrigues and manipulation, becomes a norm. (17)



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  Empathy is the soul of democracy. The more empathic the culture, the more democratic its values and governing institutions. The less empathic the culture, the more totalitarian its values and governing institutions. (161)

  The constant empathic feedback is the social glue that makes possible increasingly complex societies. Without empathy it would be impossible to even imagine a social life and the organization of society. (42)



The Imagine Project


You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will live as one

Fabrica Workshops Environmental, Social, Relational 16 Oct 2007

Herbie Hancock Feat. Pink, Seal, India.Arie, Jeff Beck, Konono Nº1 & Oumou Sangare

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Thank you

very much

for your

attention!

The Earth seen from Apollo 17

Empathic moments

are the most

intensively alive

experiences we

ever have.

(J. Rifkin, 164)

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