Abstract
The textbook is intended not only for medical students and medical faculty, but also for students of pedagogical, social and other humanities faculties. Senior issues and gerontology itself represents an area of significant multidimensional, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.
Thus, this issue is also the superstructure and requires basic knowledge, at least conceptually, from a range of disciplines, including social and biological medicine. Because of the broadth of the topic, this publication provides students only with basic information, which the authors see as the introduction to the basics of gerontology for students.
The authors define basic terms such as geriatrics and gerontology, long-term care and quality of life, with conviction to qualify fully emancipated life of long-lived citizens. Readers will also find important information on the field of social security, international comparisons of long-term care and the expected development of the health status of the population aged over 65 years.
The authors focus on intergenerational cohesion and their forays into social issues in the approach to senior citizens. Text brings current view on the question of age and aging and is thus useful for both, the undergraduate students, as well as for practice in lifelong education of health professionals, teachers and social services workers and workers in social work.