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Age-friendly Society (5 cr)

Code: YI10001-3004

General information


Enrollment

15.08.2025 - 30.09.2025

Timing

02.09.2025 - 11.11.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

10 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Active Ageing, Development and Management

Teachers

  • Tuula Kukkonen
  • Gero Virtuaalihenkilö
  • Anne Airaksinen

Teacher in charge

Terhi Myller

Groups

  • KAKS25
    Karelia, Open UAS, All, Fall, 2026
  • SIYS25
    Master of Health Care (MA), Active Ageing, Development and Management, Fall, 2025

Objective

After completing the course, you are able to:

-manage the key concepts of ageing
-identify the perspectives of ageing issues at micro, mezzo and macro levels widely
-assess comprehensively the individual needs and life situations of older people
-critically examine the current societal debate on ageing
-analyze the development needs of the operational environment of older people
-manage and develop multidisciplinary collaboration

Content

An ageing society
- Age, ageing, theories of ageing
- An ageing society and age-friendliness
- Generational and life-stage perspectives
- Ageing issues in a European context
- Diverse age skills

Wellbeing and inclusion of older people
- Supporting the wellbeing, health and functional capability of older people
- Legislation, strategies, development activities, social and health care reform
- Development of services for older people: current issues
- Utilization of technology: current issues

Towards an age-friendly society
- Age-friendly company, age-friendly municipality, age-friendly society, age-friendly countryside
- The age diversity of working life and its management
- Memory friendly Finland
- Multidisciplinary development

Evaluation scale

H-5