tailieunhanh - Ebook Economic foundations for creative ageing policy (Volume II): Part 2

Part 2 book “Economic foundations for creative ageing policy” has contents: Aims and challenges of the creative ageing policy, principles, governance, and coproduction of the creative ageing policy, organizational forms and management for the building of creative capital of older people. | CHAPTER 6 Aims and Challenges of the Creative Ageing Policy This chapter tries to describe the aims and challenges of the creative ageing policy. This book suggests that the creative ageing policy may be defined briefly as a process of engaging older adults in creative activity, which aims to shift from highlighting their problems to indicating their potential (capital). This process is based on the stages of policy cycle as well as includes strategies, programs, and projects that mix art with LLL, community integration and rehabilitation, therapeutic activities to improve physical and psychosocial conditions, the building of awareness, promotion of the experience of older people, and the transfer of their heritage to the younger or future generations. It needs to be highlighted that the creative ageing policy puts emphasis on creating opportunities, technological innovations (mainly gerontechnologies), and social innovations for all older adults. This means a wide interest in the creativity of not only those who have had careers as entrepreneurs, managers, employees, workers, or artists in cultural and creative industries. The creative ageing policy supports a creative approach to leisure time in old age, regardless of whether it is a professional or amateur activity. A proposed definition more or less directly shows, at least, main goals of the creative ageing policy. However, the discourse on aims and challenges of this policy idea is much wider and full of tensions. © The Author(s) 2017 A. Klimczuk, Economic Foundations for Creative Ageing Policy, Volume II, DOI 167 168 A. KLIMCZUK AIMS OF THE CREATIVE AGEING POLICY The notion of “policy” refers to a wide range of divergent issues. In literature we may find examples when “policy” means, among others, activities or the commitment of the government related to some areas of social or economic system; expression of the desired state of order or “general aims” (used in this book .