The social dimension of old age, the new perspectives of the elderly people were the issues of the lecture by Prof. Piotr Błędowski, a Polish economist and gerontologist, who was a guest at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz (UŁ).

Professor Błędowski talked about barriers and obstacles from that elderly people can suffer everyday life.

-Older people no longer limit their aspirations, as they did in the 1980s. Their professional activity is increasing more and more. There are more and more benefits. I would not like to be a second-class citizen in my old age, but I want to have the same rights to benefits as others, provided that such benefits are available- emphasizes Prof. Błędowski.

Professor Piotr Błędowski is a long-time chairman of the Main Board of the Polish Gerontological Society (PTG), and currently the chairman of the PTG Audit Committee and a member of the Labor and Social Policy Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.