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In today's society, retirement presents a challenge that did not exist one or two generations ago: more and more people reach this point in life , and we do so mostly in good physical and intellectual conditions (which can make the retirement stage retirement lasts up to 30 years), and with rich life experience. At the same time, this longer retirement with better health conditions is threatened by the scourge of loneliness: a high percentage of those over 65 years of age in Europe (40.2% of women, 21.8% of men) live alone . It is not surprising that retirement leads to an existential crisis, and that this is experienced as a void of meaning. Filling this gap is a necessary condition for the well-being of the elderly , and it cannot be achieved only with a generic invocation of “active aging.” How to get it? Experts point out that overcoming this crisis requires the subject to start a new project, a new community of social relations, a new area of commitments and an update of knowledge and skills, for a stage that will be different and may not be be brief. In short, to update - to continue it - his personal enrichment and, above all, to become socially useful again, although in a different way.
One of the best ways to do this may be to turn to adult education and senior college programs. CTA Post Better accompanied The individual alone will not be able to achieve it. He needs formative support - as in the other stages of life -, a platform to help him channel this new "adolescence" that is opening up in his life. This is how the Europe Mobile Number List University Programs for Seniors (PUMs) were born . Virtually all Spanish universities have one, although with different modalities. And they all recognize a founding date: in 1973 at the University of Toulouse , when the first of these programs was launched. Under different names - older adult education, andragogy or PUMs - two main types of programs coexist : the French one, which consists of universities creating an offer of studies and activities; and English, in which it is the community of _seniors_ that creates the study offer through its own training and experience. Regarding the methodology, some give weekly lectures, others offer older students to attend class as listeners with younger university students, and others follow a study plan specifically aimed at them, according to their new needs.
Adult education: specific programs The latter is the case of the Experience Campus of the International University of Catalonia, a University Program for Seniors aimed at people who are finishing the professional cycle of their lives. It is proven that PUMs like this are an effective instrument to give meaning to life in old age . And they are because, above all, they encourage socialization, commitment and mutual help - service - among peers; although also because they facilitate personal enrichment through the cultivation of wisdom - a way of fitting in and making profitable their long life experience -, and creative leisure proportioned to their strengths and shared with others. Who can enter? If we consider that continuing education is a right and a duty, none of the PUMs require entry requirements: no prior qualification is necessary other than the condition of having turned 50 years old. Currently in Spain there are about 60 universities with PUMs. Each university and each program has its rates. According to the latest periodic report from Xarxa Vives , the price for students of these programs ranges between €1.70 and €10.6 per hour. Each university offers different financing or financial aid possibilities.ow us on LinkedIn , Instagram and Twitter .