REPORT

INTRODUCTION:

The main objectives of this report are to describe how young people in suburb feel about elderly

people and aging themselves. I will explain the results obtained from my survey, in which I

interviewed random people between 14 and 18 years old at my neighbourhood.

I will also include recommendations as how attitudes could be improved

ATTITUDES TO OLDER PEOPLE:

A large proportion of those surveyed agreed that they never or rarely spend time with someone aged

60. The main reasons for this to happened where: that they have noting in common, some elderly

people usually get upset very quickly and teenagers consider a lack of time to meet elderly people.

But something in which all the surveyed agreed was that all of them could learn new things about

history or maybe about the life in general.

ATTITUDES TO AGING:

Most of the people who responded to the survey prefer to think about aging as little as possible and

there was a minority who never thought about it. For those who did think about it, the prime concerns

were loneliness, poor health and boredom.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

In order to improve the relation between young and old people in my neighbourhood I would try to

put in practise the following recommendations:

• Try to introduce old people in the Internet world, for example teenagers could teach elderly

people how to send an email, or how to use Skype in order to maintain a relationship with family

members.

• Maybe aged people could explain history about Spain or maybe how was the life in those times.

Hopefully if all of this is put in practice, the relationship between elderly and young people could

improve.