Assistant Elderly. The Need to Education to New Specialization in Social Work

Abstract

Currently observed dynamics of demographic processes tends to take actions that would support implementation of the needs and expectations of older people. This applies both to state social policy, as well as the construction of educational programs that will help to prepare professionals to prevent seniors’ social exclusion. It cannot be done anyhow, because demographic changes we are witnessing imply a number of consequences of economic, social, cultural and educational, whose elements are elderly. The constantly growing number of elderly people and increasing their social activity caused a need for professional training of specialists in the field assistant for the elderly interdisciplinary wider understood as part of system of care and support of the elderly.