Abstract
The contribution intends to present the results of a research – included in the national
program “Redesign – frail elderly, intergenerational solidarity and aging friendly communities” –
which analyzed the local program of the Zone Plans (ZP) of some territories of our country with the
aim of verifying whether and how much the issue of the frailty of the elderly is taken into consideration. After an introduction that focuses on the issue of fragility, as it is addressed by international
literature, the contribution proposes the demographic framework of the Italian population and the
extent of the phenomenon of population aging, and then focuses on an analysis of the content of the
ZP of the municipalities of Milan, Brescia, Abbiategrasso (MI), Verona, Ponte di Piave (TV), Larino
(CB), Isernia and Lecce. In particular, through the analysis of four thematic areas present in the ZP
(services for the elderly, the aging of the population, the relationship between frailty and elderly
life, the role of the caregiver) three ways of understanding frailty was identified, variously declined
in the different territories studied: institutional, semi-multidimensional and multidimensional. A
strong correlation was observed between the conceptualization of frailty in elderly life and the social
offer: more the fragility assumes social, economic and psychological characteristics – in addition to
the bio-medical aspects (multidimensional fragility) – more the services promoted by the administrations extend on various fronts by involving in the operational structure not only public actors, but
also coming from proximity networks and / or from the private social sector
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] FRAGILITY OF THE ELDERLY AND AGING OF THE POPULATION IN THE ZONE PLANS: FIRST ELEMENTS OF A NATIONAL RESEARCH |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 359-378 |
Numero di pagine | 20 |
Rivista | STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2021 |
Keywords
- Fragilità
- Frailty, Vulnerability, Welfare, Local systems
- Sistemi locali
- Welfare
- vulnerabilità