Lucie Vidovićová

Masaryk University | MUNI · Office for Population Studies

In this article we make use of preference theory developed by Hakim (2000) in the context of reconciling work and family to cover and explain different patterns of retirement exit paths and retirement satisfaction levels in the Czech Republic. We propose that lifestyle preferences and values may help to explain why some older workers continue to wo...

The chapter introduces the Age-friendly City Index as a way of measuring the age-friendliness of urban environments. The proposed index assesses the dimensions of outdoor spaces and transportation as they are perceived and evaluated by older people, residents of the fourteen biggest towns in the Czech Republic. The dimensions and items included in...

This article deals with active ageing as a policy concept and its meanings in different cultures. We describe the Czech Republic and Poland, formerly communist states that experienced economic and political transitions in the 1990s and joined the European Union in 2004. Both countries are demographically similar, with ageing populations, but their...

Ageing is a diverse and multifaceted experience that is unique to each person. The process of ageing is lived differently according to each individual’s socio-cultural, historical, religious, and political context, among other significant factors. However, the stereotype of homogeneity is still one of the strongest aspects related to later life. Th...

This article presents interdisciplinary research on the social and technological aspects of interactions between older adults and the humanoid robot Pepper (SoftBank Robotics). Our case study is based on the regular meetings that are a part of an experimental intervention taking place at the Active Ageing Centre for older adults in Prague, run by t...

Accelerated digitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition from mobile phones to smartphones have increased the need for ICT literacy among the general public, including knowledge of the potential risks and their management. Generally, it is assumed that some population groups are more at risk of being left behind. Original empirica...

The objective of Working Group (WG) 4 of the COST Action NET4Age-Friendly is to examine existing policies, advocacy, and funding opportunities and to build up relations with policy makers and funding organisations. Also, to synthesize and improve existing knowledge and models to develop from effective business and evaluation models, as well as to g...

Articles Being socially connected is a universal human need, but a substantial number of older men and women are or become excluded from these connections in later life. Exclusion from social relations (ESR) is unwanted as it undermines people's ability to lead a healthy, active, and independent life. Policies to reduce this form of exclusion have...

This chapter explores how exclusion from care provision in rural areas can be understood as place-based social exclusion. The analysis focuses on case studies of Czechia, Poland and Germany and compares their approaches to providing care to older rural dwellers. While recognising the heterogeneity of these nations and their rural areas, a spatial f...

This section focuses on the community and spatial aspects of social exclusion. For this introduction, we define the community aspect of exclusion as the unintended reduction of participation in local life and spatial aspects of exclusion as the unintended reduction of mobility outside and inside of a person’s home. Fighting against social exclusion...

The aim of the study is to present a new and efficient way of measuring the quality of life among older populations, with special attention to morale, positive outlook on life and ageing. The measure is based on the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale (PGCM), originally consisting of 22 items. The growing numbers and proportions of older peo...

Zpráva o rodině 2020 volně navazuje na Zprávu o rodině 2017, aktualizuje ji a rozšiřuje o specifické téma "(ne)stabilita rodiny". Zpráva vychází z analýz administrativních a statistických datových zdrojů a je doplněna o výsledky sociologických výběrových šetření. Ke klíčovým závěrům těchto analýz patří v rámci vybraných oblastí následující: Demogra...

In: K. Walsh and T. Scharf (series eds.), ROSEnet Briefing Paper Series: No. 2. CA 15122 Reducing Old-Age Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy (ROSEnet). Everything that happens, happens somewhere, in some physical space. The socio-physical context therefore represents a basic framework for all social interactions. In an ideal world e...

Cognitive performance is dynamic and shaped by individual biological and environmental factors throughout life. In psychology, besides the effects of age, education, and other often studied factors, the complexity of the lived-in environment and urbanicity in that context are yet to be elucidated. In this observational cross-sectional study, we com...

Kniha přináší analytický pohled na české rodiny a jejich proměny od počátku tisíciletí. Sleduje každodenní život rodin, jejich potřeby, problémy a faktory, které mohou fungování a soudržnost rodin ohrozit. Autorky věnují pozornost rovněž vztahům v rodině a plnění jejích výkonných funkcí v době proměnlivých společenských a ekonomických podmínek, jak...

Who Should Interview Older People? The Effect of Interviewer and Interviewee Characteristics in Surveys of Older People and Aging Topics. Objectives: Aging of the population has increased the need to gain a better understanding of older people’s experiences, especially by collecting their views on various issues and quantitative surveys are frequen...

This article presents a study on the application of the age‑friendly measurement index in the context of rural areas in the Czech Republic. Small cities and rural settlements comprise the great majority of municipalities and face considerable ageing of their populations. The age‑friendliness concept expresses how and to what extent communities offe...

This chapter discusses the ways in which a literary character from The Grandmother: A story of country life in Bohemia , written in 1855 by Božena Němcová, is translated into the contemporary conceptualization of the ‘typical’ grandmother in popular culture and an archetype in the sociological meaning of the word, and how it serves as a frame of re...

Introduction In many cultures, historical archetypes continue to influence modern understandings of the grandmother role. The lived experience, social structures, institutional framing and cultural images of grandmotherhood are highly relevant for social scientific examination and for understanding the changing and diverse phenomenon of grandparent...

This book is a sequel to Contemporary grandparenting, published in 2012 (Arber and Timonen, 2012). Both macro and micro level issues are covered, with a particular focus on gender, welfare states, economic development, and grandparental agency; this ensures that the book covers many topic areas of greatest relevance and interest. It emphasises that...

The paper discusses the concept of the quality of life and its measuring. It tries to explain its peculiarities in the rural space considering different levels of education, professional activities, mobility, ways of dwelling, access to the social and technical infrastructure. The subjective perception of both urban and rural people to the rural qu...

Older adults represent a specific group of political and civic actors. In one line of argument, the growing number of people over 65 is gaining stronger voice and representation, and plays a stronger role in social, economic and political life and changes in societies. Another approach points to the social exclusion of older adults and their “oppre...

This chapter uses the Active Ageing Index (AAI) as an “operationalisation” of the active ageing paradigm and compares it with the perceived roles and contributions of older people and older peoples’ own preferences and prevalent role sets. The active ageing concept highlights productive roles such as worker, volunteer and care provider. However, th...

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Goals. Cognitive performance in older persons is often related to age and education. The goal of the study was to find whether living in Prague (the only city with over 1 million inhabitants and the most densely populated city in the Czech Republic), may be related to performance in neuropsychological tests in older persons. Sample. The sample was...

This paper introduces the Active Ageing Index into the context of the Czech Republic through an analysis of the index and its application at the regional level (Regional Active Ageing Index – RAAI). The strengths and limitations of the Active Ageing Index are discussed, particularly with respect to its limited applicability for policy-making. The r...

This chapter underlines the effects of historical path dependency, describes the current situation, and identifies some of the key factors of the institutional context of retirement on several levels, as well as workers’ preferences. Vidovicova argues that the perception of retirement as a “natural” right keeps the preferred retirement age low and...

This paper introduces the Active Ageing Index into the context of the Czech Republic through an analysis of the index and its application at the regional level (Regional Active Ageing Index - RAAI). The strengths and limitations of the Active Ageing Index are discussed, particularly with respect to its limited applicability for policy-making. The r...

Goals. Cognitive performance in older persons is often related to age and education. The goal of the study was to find whether living in Prague (the only city with over 1 million inhabitants and the most densely populated city in the Czech Republic), may be related to performance in neuropsychological tests in older persons. Sample. The sample was...

In the discourse of active ageing it is assumed that young seniors will hold active roles in public and private life. This article examines grandparenting as an emerging role of young olds in the context of their heterogeneous role sets. Based on an integrated analysis of a survey conducted among people aged 50-70 and qualitative interviews it desc...

Seniorská populace je považována za populaci hodnou zvláštního ohledu, co se týče zajištění práv a svobod a zajištění ochrany před specifickými riziky. Jednou z významných oblastí je ochrana seniora - spotřebitele. Původním zdrojem tohoto, v současnosti zvýšeného a v zásadě neutuchajícího, zájmu je fenomén nekalých obchodních praktik spojovaných př...

Family, education and work in later life, care for grandchildren as well as the imperative of “active” and “healthy” ageing are framing and structuring the everyday life and decisions of the Czech ageing population. The paper aims to bring new insights into the problem of the role overload, i.e. “the stress generated within a person when he either...

The poverty in old age is one of the most persistent stereotypical images of ageing. Due to the significant differences between income before retirement and pension benefit, there is an objective drop in the income with the retirement. However, with the individualisation of pension provision and weakening the link between statutory retirement age a...

Recent political and financial reforms have increased pressures on individuals in terms of responsibility for financial security in retirement. However, certain preconditions must be fulfilled if an individual is to make such decisions—we group these under the concept of financial literacy. Our empirical data explores three dimensions of financial...

The article presents an analysis of selected activities engaged in by seniors in the central areas of large Czech towns. The authors set out from the assumption that activities are a factor that animate the physical environment and, together with the actual quality of the physical environment, importantly contribute to the quality of life of senior...

The recognition of older people as a specific group of consumers is growing together with their increasing share of the total population. Some speak about the silver or grey market and about older people constituting a resourceful and well-off consumer segment. Others talk about age discrimination in the way older consumers are treated and how thei...

In four surveys dealing with older people and different aspects of their quality of life in the Czech Republic (carried out since 2007 until December 2011) were collected information on subjective health, subjective age, general satisfaction with the development of society, and the Philadelphia Geriatric Centre Morale Scale (PGCM). In all of these...

This paper introduces the topic of migrant home care workers in Europe and Canada. It gives an overview of demographic situation of an ageing world and points out the rapid ageing of the oldest old, with increasing levels of care need in this segment of population. More and more often those needs are met by migrant care worker, which creates new so...

V příspěvku se zaměřujeme na otázky Evropského výzkumu hodnot věnované ospravedlnitelnosti různých typů jednání v inter- a intra- generační a kulturní perspektivě. Ospravedlnitelnost různých typů chování obecně narůstá, ovšem rozdíl v postojích není tak markantní, abychom mohli mluvit o revoluci v hodnotách české společnosti. Senioři, kteří jsou ča...

Tento článek nabízí přehled současných diskusí o dynamickém vývoji moderních měst, tj. zejména revitalizaci, gentrifikaci a regenreaci fyzického prostředí, a jejich dopadu na kvalitu života starších lidí, kteří žijí v těchto oblastech. Argumentuje, že tyto procesy jsou vysoce normativní a prezentují se jako primárně mladistvé změny. Jako takové moh...

In this paper we look at European Value Study questions on justification of different types of behaviour in inter- and intra- generational, and cultural perspective. This justification is generally increasing; however the differences are not so big that we could talk about revolution in the morality of Czech society. Older people, often considered...

This article presents an overview of recent discussions on dynamic development in modern cities, namely revitalisation, gentrification and the regeneration of the built environment and its impact on the quality of life of older people living in these areas. We argue that these processes are highly normative and present themselves as primarily youth...

The Czech Republic has a long lasting tradition of research in geriatrics. In comparison Czech gerontology, social gerontology and sociology of age can be considered quite recent disciplines. Mainly due to the current demographic conditions these fields are gradually gaining on importance. Long-term low fertility rates (1.19 children per a woman in...

Age at retirement and age of exit from the labour market have become an important issue in ageing European societies. This paper deals with the perspective that people aged 45–64 have towards the timing of their retirement. We examine the question of the preferred and expected ages at retirement and introduce the concept of “desire to retire early”...

The prospect of an older population composition, and more particularly the decreasing numbers of people in working age, is regarded by policy-makers and members of the research community as a threat to the sustainability of the existing welfare regimes. The fact that large proportions of citizens consider the rising number of older persons to be a...

Existuje věková diskriminace? Je projevem strukturně inherentním a funkčním, nebo strukturálně patologickým, a tudíž cizím a nežádoucím? Je věková diskriminace založena na samotném věku, nebo na negativních (či pozitivních) charakteristikách jemu připisovaným? Jak se liší diskriminace od diferenciace? Je ageismus ideologie nebo stereotyp, charakter...

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Příspěvek vychází z projektu „Stárnutí, věk a diskriminace – nové souvislosti pro českou společnost“ a zamýšlí se nad pojetím a tematizací věkových norem v českém socio-kulturním prostředí. Stať je uvedena přehledem teorie věkových norem, jejich definic a měření a následně mapuje základní diskusi v oboru. V empirické části využíváme data z 31 kvali...

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This paper introduces the preference model of activity in advanced age as a proposed new approach to older people’s activity and employment. The model is based on the presumption that there exists a normal distribution of activity in the population and that people tend to maintain the same level of activity through the whole life cycle, even though...

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