Active Aging and Happiness: European Senior Citizen Volunteers

Pathological Gambling and the Senior Citizen

Active and successful aging: a European policy perspective.

Over the past two decades, "active aging" has emerged in Europe as the foremost policy response to the challenges of population aging. This article examines the concept of active aging and how it differs from that of "successful aging." In particular, it shows how active aging presents a more holistic, life course-oriented approach than successful aging. We provide a critical perspective on act...

[The experience of others and becoming a senior citizen].

The study aims to describe the perception of seniors on the exercise of citizenship in the light of the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, based on the notion of the sexed body and the other's body. Discloses was from the participation of 13 elderly, members of acquaintance groups in the city of Jequié/BA, which produced experiential descriptions in three focus group meetings, during the month o...

SAMLizing the European Citizen Card

While the use of Federated Identity Management and Single Sign-On based on the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standards becomes more and more important, there are quite a few European countries which are about to introduce national ID cards, which are compliant to the European Citizen Card (ECC) specification prCEN 15480. The present contribution shows how these two seemingly opposit...

Happiness and Age in European Adults

Studies of happiness levels across the life span have found support for two rival hypotheses. The positivity effect states that as people get older, they increasingly attend to positive information, which implies that happiness remains stable or increases with age, whereas the U-shaped hypothesis posits a curvilinear shape resulting from a dip during midlife. Both have been presented as potenti...