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oapen-20.500.12657-764462024-03-28T09:47:43Z Chapter Introduction Sims, Kearrin Banks, Nicola Engel, Susan Hodge, Paul Makuwira, Jonathan Nakamura, Naohiro Rigg, Jonathan Salamanca, Albert Yeophantong, Pichamon Anthropocene, Asia, banks, capitalocene, DAC, debt, development, education, Engel, Gender, global, inequality, sustainability, transboundary, transnational, climate, crisis, discourse, displacement, environment, governance, conflict, This chapter is to demonstrate the challenges related to free time of seniors (especially EU residents) in the 21st century. The starting point for the considerations was to explain the concept of free time and to specify its characteristics, functions, and ways of using it. The structure of the seniors’ time budget and leisure activities undertaken by this group were analysed (based on Eurostat data). Subsequently, one of the important forms of free time management, that is, tourism, was studied. First, the essence of tourist activity was discussed and the reasons for undertaking it in the autumn of life. Second, the functions of senior tourism were distinguished and data on the participation of seniors from EU countries in it were presented. Third, taking into account that the concept of active ageing is increasingly the participation in various types of courses, trainings, workshops, etc., the chapter defines the place of seniors in the process of lifelong learning. The tasks of the University of the Third Age (U3A) were systematized and the available data on the participation of European seniors in educational programmes were analysed. The conclusion emphasizes the heterogeneity of the silver head segment. 2023-09-27T11:21:07Z 2023-09-27T11:21:07Z 2022 chapter 9780367862022 9781032157344 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76446 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003017653_10.4324_9781003017653-1.pdf Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Global Development Routledge 10.4324/ 9781003017653-1 10.4324/ 9781003017653-1 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 1b755df5-d0f2-4108-a2a6-eb8618ffa5e0 c0b511bf-6109-4c53-a379-9c9f0c81fb83 9780367862022 9781032157344 Routledge 13 University Of Manchester open access
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This chapter is to demonstrate the challenges related to free time of seniors (especially EU residents) in the 21st century. The starting point for the considerations was to explain the concept of free time and to specify its characteristics, functions, and ways of using it. The structure of the seniors’ time budget and leisure activities undertaken by this group were analysed (based on Eurostat data). Subsequently, one of the important forms of free time management, that is, tourism, was studied. First, the essence of tourist activity was discussed and the reasons for undertaking it in the autumn of life. Second, the functions of senior tourism were distinguished and data on the participation of seniors from EU countries in it were presented. Third, taking into account that the concept of active ageing is increasingly the participation in various types of courses, trainings, workshops, etc., the chapter defines the place of seniors in the process of lifelong learning. The tasks of the University of the Third Age (U3A) were systematized and the available data on the participation of European seniors in educational programmes were analysed. The conclusion emphasizes the heterogeneity of the silver head segment.
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