Chapter Third Age Universities as an opportunity for social inclusion of seniors with disabilities

It is estimated that half of the people with disabilities in Poland are people over 60 years of age. Both people with disabilities and seniors are groups at risk of social exclusion, including digital and information exclusion. One way to prevent exclusion is by providing access to information and e...

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প্রকাশিত: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 2025
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description It is estimated that half of the people with disabilities in Poland are people over 60 years of age. Both people with disabilities and seniors are groups at risk of social exclusion, including digital and information exclusion. One way to prevent exclusion is by providing access to information and education. The availability of education for older people with disabilities largely depends on the awareness and good will of the organizers of forms of education intended for seniors, in particular Third Age Universities. Significant changes in this area could be implemented by the acts adopted in 2019: on digital accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public entities and on ensuring accessibility to people with special needs. The COVID-19 pandemic, the related with it lockdown and the change in the formula of classes from stationary to remote learning, could theoretically be an opportunity for people who, for various reasons, were unable to travel to the TAU classes. The article discusses the results of the review of the TAU websites and the analysis of their content in terms of the form of the offered classes during and after lockdown, as well as the presence of an accessibility declaration and a report on the status of ensuring accessibility, compared with the results of the survey conducted at the beginning of 2020, which was to answer the question: if and what offers are addressed to people with disabilities.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1560372025-03-07T14:52:38Z Chapter Third Age Universities as an opportunity for social inclusion of seniors with disabilities Wojtyńska, Joanna It is estimated that half of the people with disabilities in Poland are people over 60 years of age. Both people with disabilities and seniors are groups at risk of social exclusion, including digital and information exclusion. One way to prevent exclusion is by providing access to information and education. The availability of education for older people with disabilities largely depends on the awareness and good will of the organizers of forms of education intended for seniors, in particular Third Age Universities. Significant changes in this area could be implemented by the acts adopted in 2019: on digital accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public entities and on ensuring accessibility to people with special needs. The COVID-19 pandemic, the related with it lockdown and the change in the formula of classes from stationary to remote learning, could theoretically be an opportunity for people who, for various reasons, were unable to travel to the TAU classes. The article discusses the results of the review of the TAU websites and the analysis of their content in terms of the form of the offered classes during and after lockdown, as well as the presence of an accessibility declaration and a report on the status of ensuring accessibility, compared with the results of the survey conducted at the beginning of 2020, which was to answer the question: if and what offers are addressed to people with disabilities. 2025-03-07T14:52:37Z 2025-03-07T14:52:37Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788383311159_1687 9788383311159 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/156037 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/87 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8331-115-9.08 It is estimated that half of the people with disabilities in Poland are people over 60 years of age. Both people with disabilities and seniors are groups at risk of social exclusion, including digital and information exclusion. One way to prevent exclusion is by providing access to information and education. The availability of education for older people with disabilities largely depends on the awareness and good will of the organizers of forms of education intended for seniors, in particular Third Age Universities. Significant changes in this area could be implemented by the acts adopted in 2019: on digital accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public entities and on ensuring accessibility to people with special needs. The COVID-19 pandemic, the related with it lockdown and the change in the formula of classes from stationary to remote learning, could theoretically be an opportunity for people who, for various reasons, were unable to travel to the TAU classes. The article discusses the results of the review of the TAU websites and the analysis of their content in terms of the form of the offered classes during and after lockdown, as well as the presence of an accessibility declaration and a report on the status of ensuring accessibility, compared with the results of the survey conducted at the beginning of 2020, which was to answer the question: if and what offers are addressed to people with disabilities. 10.18778/8331-115-9.08 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788383311159 open access
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