TALK "Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Old Age" at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 7pm on 28th November 2016

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 28/11/2016 19:00 28/11/2016 20:30 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Old Age" Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/11/talk-towards-comprehensive.html Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Old Age"

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Kruse, is professor in ordinary and director of the Institute of Gerontology (University Heidelberg).The Institute of Gerontology at the University is the leading gerontological institute in the FederalRepublic of Germany and one of the leading institutes in Europe
  
This presentation argues for the necessity of a comprehensive perspective on old age which integrates developmental potential and vulnerability. This integration is further elucidated in the context of self-understanding and self-design as both a challenge and potential in old age, limit situations and dementia. The following parts of the contribution refer to the ethics of responsibility as an important starting point for a comprehensive understanding of old age, explicate basic positions of an anthropology of old age and suggest a definition of an age-friendly culture as a principal aim of ageing policy and the respective guidance

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