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Abstract

Italy’s population increasingly ages year by year, making the country one of the most elderly-populated European nations. To contain those socio-cultural behaviours that lead to old-people marginalisation – in Italy as well as in any other western country – due to the cliché that pictures them as a burden for society because unproductive and inactive, it is necessary to intervene on the two fronts of education “to” old age and “during” the old age. The former stands to indicate educational activities aimed at advancing the notion of seniors as resourceful and project-making individuals, rather than people merely needing assistance and care, whilst the latter makes a point of stimulating and supporting those potentialities that are peculiar to this stage of life.