Lifelong Learning in Seniors in the Perspective of the Neuro- and Psychosocial Concept

Abstract

Lifelong learning is extremely important from the standpoint of processes taking place in modern society. Currently the idea of learning one’s whole life, while facing the consequences of the aging of the society, is given a new meaning where the main aim is to optimise the social activity and improve the quality of the elderly’s life. The process of knowledge acquisition is connected with the abilities of the human brain, while this organ goes through the atrophy phase due to aging (aging of the brain). One of the methods of counteracting this unfavourable process is lifelong learning. The idea of educating the elderly is currently at the centre of interest of many people and institutions, Universities of the Third Age among them. The search for innovation in this regard is one of the major challenges in senior policy.