Abstract
The purpose of this publication is to deepen our knowledge of the complexity of the problem of preparation for old age. It brings, among other things, the results of the analysis of the variability of citizens' reactions to the risks of increasing old age.
It is based on the premise that public policy, which seeks to promote and regulate safe aging strategies for citizens, must understand how citizens think and respond to risks of old age. Without understanding the variability of citizens' attitudes to old age, well-meaning policies may be ineffective.
The acquired knowledge should support the ability of public policy to communicate targeted information about the possibilities of optimizing citizens' strategies to manage the risks of old age. The publication is conceptually based on a theoretical framework that seeks to grasp the issue of old-age security as a process of individual risk management, ie from the perspective of individual citizens who have their ideas about ideal old age, feel the risks associated with the path to their ideal and more or less seeks to mitigate and manage these risks.
Thanks to the complexity of grasping the issue of old-age security and sophisticated segmentation of the target group, it is possible to reflect the problems of preparing citizens for old age in a differentiated and plastic way. The publication offers a specific and structured view of the process of preparation for old age and brings readers closer to this process as it currently takes place within individual age categories, resp. generations.