A study on “Positive Support” was organized by Üsküdar University Institute of Social Sciences Lecturer İdil Arasan Doğan, with Üsküdar University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Sociology students within the scope of the Psychology of Aging course.
In the program carried out with voluntary students and a limited number of participants aged 65 and over; shares were made on “daily life adaptation skills, the three best things in their recent lives, how they want to be remembered, a note of gratitude and appreciation, recalling positive moments, evaluating growth after hardship,”…
“There are people doing things for us during the pandemic”
With the study, carried out with the participation of Üsküdar University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Sociology students, which also provided an opportunity for the elderly to review their lives and from which they departed happily with the thought “there are people doing things for us during the pandemic,” a contribution was made to the evaluation of old age as a social phenomenon, and an impact was created in raising awareness among young people in this context.