Pedagogical Proposal to Increase Senior Citizens’ Quality of Life

摘要

Quality of life is a very broad and complex issue. It has objective and subjective components, as well as physical, psychological and social components. High Quality of Life is beneficial to the individual, but also to society. Quality of life can be influenced through education; it can be achieved by comprehensive pedagogy that includes content, but also tries to integrate facilitators, teachers and classmates into the process of lifelong learning. This is a long-term objective, but one that is showing results in increasing the subjective perception of quality of life, well-being, integration and participation of senior citizens in society. This paper reports on a pedagogical proposal focusing on five main topics (pedagogies, contents, contexts, models and trainers), based on analysis and research carried out within the QEduSen project (supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission).