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Partizipative Planung mit Seniorinnen und Senioren am Beispiel von Zukunftswerkstätten in Pirmasens

2011; oekom verlag; Volume: 69; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s13147-011-0083-5

1869-4179

Pia Gerhards, Annette Spellerberg,

Social and Demographic Issues in Germany

The increasing number of elderly people necessitates enhancing the local planning of municipalities for this target group and creating adequate conditions for the preservation of quality of life. As part of a project concerning planning for elderly people in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Pirmasens, besides a representative survey and interviews with experts, the participative process “Zukunftswerkstatt”, a form of creative workshops, was accomplished in six different districts. This article points out, to what extent the creative workshops represent a suitable instrument to identify the desires and needs of the elderly and if these workshops can activate the older people to engage in the realization of their expressed needs.