The global trend of transferring responsibility for dignified aging from the state to individuals is conducive to a variability of alternative attitudes and strategies. Despite having important implications for both the state and individuals, the variability of old age risk management has not been fully appreciated by social policy. Social policy cannot adapt to every individual, but it can reflect various categories of citizens and their patterns of old age risk management. In this article, we navigate the plethora of individual choices by identifying patterns of strategic behavior in old age risk management in society. Based on our data from the original 2018 survey, representative for the Czech population, we identify four distinctive strategies: risk taking, risk avoiding, risk neglecting, and risk preventing. We conclude by discussing how the data gathered and analyzed through our research may help social policy actors better understand sources of variability and design more effective policy interventions.

• Klíčová slova
• Ageing, individual old age risk management, risk assessment, risk coping, risk management,
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

Aims: Leisure activity helps people engage with life, and it promotes health and well-being as we age. This study investigated whether individuals with active jobs (high psychological demands, high control) in mid-life were more active during leisure time in old age compared with those with less active jobs. Methods: Two individually linked Swedish surveys were used (N=776) with 23 years of follow-up. Data were analysed with logistic regression. Results: Having an active job in mid-life was associated with greater engagement in intellectual/cultural, social and physical activity in old age, even when leisure activity in mid-life was taken into account. Conclusions: The results suggest that active jobs in mid-life may be replaced by active leisure during retirement. Active job conditions may promote engagement in society in old age, which in turn may have positive health consequences.

• Klíčová slova
• Psychosocial working conditions, Sweden, active aging, active jobs, continuity, leisure activity, longitudinal, old age,
• MeSH
• důchod psychologie   MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• pracovní zátěž psychologie   MeSH
• průzkumy a dotazníky MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• volnočasové aktivity psychologie   MeSH
• zaměstnání statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Švédsko MeSH

In 2012, the Czech Republic established the women's age limit for access to assisted reproduction techniques at age 49 years. In this paper, the acceptability of this age limit from the children's perspective in the Czech Republic is assessed. Although the necessity of balancing the interests of parents and children is acknowledged, little research has taken children's interests into account. We have attempted to map out 'children's interests', asking older children and adolescents (aged 11-25 years) how old they would prefer their parents to be: Czech respondents would prefer to have younger parents. This finding is consistent with the optimal biological childbearing age rather than with the current postponement to a later age. So far, assisted reproduction techniques have been largely regarded as a medical treatment justifying the current women's age limit of 49 years. Had the children's perspective been taken into account, this age limit might have been lower than 49 years. We propose that reproductive health policy should adequately reflect multiple perspectives as an integral part of a multi-layered support system of a society.

• Klíčová slova
• age limit, assisted reproduction, delayed childbearing, fertility, preferences,
• MeSH
• asistovaná reprodukce * MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mladý dospělý MeSH
• věkové faktory * MeSH
• Check Tag
• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mladý dospělý MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH

• MeSH
• charakteristiky bydlení MeSH
• dieta MeSH
• dlouhověkost MeSH
• fyziologie výživy * MeSH
• geriatrie * MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• poruchy výživy epidemiologie   MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• státní lékařství MeSH
• stravovací zvyklosti * MeSH
• výživa - přehledy MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH

An analysis was carried of the fauna found in 338 beds from two old-age homes and from flats inhabited by asthmatic children. During hospitalization of these children the fauna in the flats was compared with that found in beds used by them in sanatoria. The most abundant species proved to be Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus that is also widely spread in other countries of Europe. The bed fauna in the sanatoria is very poor, corresponding to the improved state of health of patients during hospitalization. The authors assume that the low population density of fauna is influenced by constant airing of rooms and by strict separation of bedrooms from dining halls and other premises. Also the number of mites in different padding material used in mattresses was evaluated and an analysis of the general fauna per bed was carried out.

• MeSH
• bydlení * MeSH
• dětské nemocnice * MeSH
• dítě MeSH
• domovy pro seniory * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• lůžka * MeSH
• lůžkoviny MeSH
• nemocnice speciální * MeSH
• rekonvalescence MeSH
• roztoči analýza   MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• Check Tag
• dítě MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH

The focus of this paper is on the aging of the Czechoslovak population and the problems it may create in the future. Comparisons are made between the numbers of people receiving old-age pensions in 1985 with projected numbers for 2005. The author warns of social problems created by the probable dependency burden. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND RUS)

• Klíčová slova
• Czechoslovakia, Demographic Aging *, Demographic Factors, Dependency Burden *, Developed Countries, Eastern Europe, Economic Factors, Estimation Technics, Europe, Microeconomic Factors, Old Age Security *, Population, Population Dynamics, Population Projection *, Research Methodology, Social Problems *,
• MeSH
• demografie MeSH
• ekonomika MeSH
• podpora ve stáří * MeSH
• populace MeSH
• populační dynamika * MeSH
• předpověď * MeSH
• sociální problémy * MeSH
• statistika jako téma MeSH
• vyspělé země MeSH
• výzkum MeSH
• závislost (psychologie) * MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH
• Evropa MeSH
• východní Evropa MeSH

• Klíčová slova
• NURSING HOMES/statistics *,
• MeSH
• domovy pro seniory * MeSH
• hospitalizace * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• pečovatelské domovy statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

• MeSH
• geriatrie * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• metody MeSH
• nádory míchy chirurgie   MeSH
• nádory mozku chirurgie   terapie   MeSH
• nemoci nervového systému terapie   MeSH
• neurochirurgie * MeSH
• prognóza MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• subdurální hematom terapie   MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

The Czechoslovak population is projected by sex and age cohort to the year 2010 for the purpose of determining old-age pension needs. Data are from 1987 life tables. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND RUS)

• Klíčová slova
• Adult, Age Factors *, Aged *, Czechoslovakia, Demographic Factors, Developed Countries, Eastern Europe, Economic Factors, Estimation Technics, Europe, Microeconomic Factors, Needs *, Old Age Security *, Population, Population Characteristics, Population Projection *, Research Methodology,
• MeSH
• demografie MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• ekonomika MeSH
• podpora ve stáří * MeSH
• populace MeSH
• populační charakteristiky MeSH
• předpověď * MeSH
• senioři * MeSH
• statistika jako téma MeSH
• věkové faktory * MeSH
• vyspělé země MeSH
• výzkum MeSH
• zdravotnické služby - potřeby a požadavky * MeSH
• Check Tag
• dospělí MeSH
• senioři * MeSH
• Publikační typ
• anglický abstrakt MeSH
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH
• Evropa MeSH
• východní Evropa MeSH

• Klíčová slova
• ADIPOSE TISSUE/in old age *, AGING/physiology *,
• MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• podkožní tuk * MeSH
• senioři nad 80 let MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• stárnutí fyziologie   MeSH
• tuková tkáň * MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• senioři nad 80 let MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH