Promoción del envejecimiento activo en la atención gerontológica: el papel de la educación social

Active ageing is being studied from different professional perspectives, strengthening the action for the elderly people in order to promote their autonomy, and improve their quality of life. This focus since a lot of social organizations is forgotten in nursing homes because of absence of innovative projects that introduce the features of the changes that have occurred in the profile of the elderly people. New requirements that are not solved by the stagnation suffered since 2003 in this kind of treatments. The inclusion of Social Education and innovative projects can be the solution to this problem, that will be affect a large percentage of the population in the near future.