Active life of the senior citizens through education

Abstract

© the author(s). The paper presents reasons for including the senior citizens into educational process, as well as active age model. Education, communication and leisure system for the senior citizens, implemented by Yelabuga municipal district, is presented as a requirement for model realization. A core of the paper is the Active Age Institute. Its program consists of organization of courses based on the senior citizens' requests and their involvement into educational work with the children and the youth. In its turn, work of future teachers with the senior citizens results in advance receiving by future specialists of integral system of knowledge concerning ageing social mechanisms and ways of increasing social mobility of the senior citizens.