Environmental education: a strategy for improving the quality of life of older adults

Abstract

This article proposes Environmental Education as a strategy that contributes to the quality of life of the elderly, helping to assume a dynamic role that generates participatory processes with communities and new generations, whose purpose is to integrate and hold individuals accountable as to the community with the environment, through its capacity for lifelong learning, thanks to brain plasticity; at the end, some successful experiences that show the process starting from theoretical and methodological conceptions are enunciated. From the previous perspective, the role of the Environmental Education of the older adult is assumed as the process that will allow to recognize the active role of this social group, in accordance with the guidelines of environmental legislation, since the participation of adults is analyzed older in achieving an optimal integration of society as the ecological environment: the individual reaffirms his approach to nature and the world is (re) modeled from environmental education in all the formal, informal and non-formal. It is the space where new generations find an echo, from the experience that the years that those who continue to participate actively in the natural community conservation processes give.