The aging population prosess inevitably determines fundamental changes in intergenerational social transfers. The new institutional forms of support and activation is crystallizing - services for the older people, the implementation of which is based on the broadly understood cooperation of service providers and recipients, and the real use of the potential of seniors constituting their human and social capital. One can see here a possibility of developing co-production of older people within the social services dedicated to them. Thus, the idea of personal and social productivity of older people appears here, identified with the results achieved through the use of seniors' own resources. Reviewing the definitions and concepts of social services co-production and older people productivity encouraged the author to develop a conceptual model to combine both issues. No similar proposals have been proposed in the literature to date. Therefore, it was necessary to operationalize the created model concepts. It was developed on the basis of an extensive review of Polish and foreign literature on the subject. The proposed solutions were then subjected to extensive empirical verification. The author conducted nationwide research in centers established to operate under the government's "Senior +" Multiannual Program. Therefore, the subject of the analysis were formal organizers (managers and staff) and beneficiaries (people aged 60+) of services constituting the program offer of individual centers (day houses and "Senior +" clubs). The author hopes that the presentation will stimulate a debate on this crucial topic.

Authors:
Grzegorz Gawron, Univristy of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

About the Presenter(s)
Grzegorz Gawron, PhD in Sociology, Assistant professor et the University of Silesia in Katowice, social gerentology, co-production, productivity of the older people, social policy.

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