Recent demographic data shows that in the future, there will be many very old people, mainly women, in all European societies. There is a lack of role models for an active old age, seen as something positive in spite of crises and existing constraints.
That is why women over 50 from seven educational institutions in six Eastern and Western European countries have asked what “successful” ageing is. In the context of the European Grundtvig Learning Partnership “European Women in Older Age” (EWA), they chose women over 70 years old as models and inspiration for their own successful ageing.
The results provide insight into the life of older women in Europe and their ageing. The project integrated applications of new media with tools such as Skype, translation machines and Internet forums. At the end of the project, the life stories of selected interesting and inspiring women from the whole of Europe were documented in English and in the respective national language by different media: the interviews on the project website, exemplary life stories on a DVD and in the book “Mastering older age!Inspiring role models of women 70+ from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Lithuania and Czech Republic, interviewed by women 50+”.
more information: http://www.european-women.eu/