Social gerontology as field of university studies

Abstract

Demographic transformations are inevitably showing that at present seniors are becoming a huge client group of customers, electors, patients and participants in the cultural life. To meet market needs halfway, a team of employees of the Institute of Sociology of the Medical University in Łódź drew an original project of studies in the scope of interdisciplinary gerontological studies. The present article is showing technical grounds for creating such a field, its characteristics in accordance with requirements of the Bolognese Process, a description of the effects of education, possible paths of education, a detailed timetable and career prospects.