{"id":39809,"date":"2021-11-22T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/senquality-guide-embrace-later-life-and-plan-in-advance\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:03:03","slug":"senquality-embrace-later-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/senquality-embrace-later-life\/","title":{"rendered":"SenQuality- Guide: Embrace Later Life and Plan in advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Later Life Preparation &#8211; When does one start? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-39794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The current global demographic changes are equally influenced by various socioeconomic aspects of modern lifestyle and have led or are consequence of increment in life expectancy\u2019s ratio, at least, in the so-called western world. When in one\u2019s thirties, forties or even fifties, one may not think about or reflect upon retirement and planning for Later Life. Most of modern adults in these age groups, either start families, change career courses, pursuit new academic fields and orientations, etc., due to multiple social or personal demands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Few contemplate and even plan or prepare for Later Life arrival. But seriously, when is the right time to start? Is there such a thing as the right time? If any of you are wondering, just read further&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The project <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/senquality.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SenQuality<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-39796\" style=\"margin-top: -30px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image_2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Later Life\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image_2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>To begin answering the question posed, we introduce SenQuality, which is an Erasmus+ project implemented by various organizations from Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Slovenia, and Poland, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>p-consulting.gr<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> \u00a0One of the project\u2019s objectives is to raise public awareness of issues related to Later Life planning and to promote the concept of active ageing.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Project\u2019s Practical <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/senquality.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/SenQuality_IO1_Practical-guide-for-later-life-preparation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Guide<\/strong><\/a><strong> for Later Life preparation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The project\u2019s partners have already implemented relevant research, produced, and made available through its website, a practical guide to facilitate proactive adults concerned about the matter and promote and\/or raise awareness to those who are interested, but do not know where or when to start. The research and study resulted in 9 different life\u2019s domains, which are essential when considering planning for Later life, such as:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Finances<\/li>\n<li>Emergencies and exceptional circumstances<\/li>\n<li>Mental and physical fitness<\/li>\n<li>Housing<\/li>\n<li>Looks and appearance<\/li>\n<li>Social relationships<\/li>\n<li>Health<\/li>\n<li>Leisure activities and lifestyle<\/li>\n<li>Work and employment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39798 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"400\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image_3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image_3-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/05_SenQuality_pcons_image_3-768x307.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each one of these domains, come with practical support on how to take concrete steps for a fulfilled Later life, in addition to some more generic advice on planning and decision making. There is also an annex available comprising a summary of the research results conducted with participation of 125 people, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/senquality.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IO1_A3_Summary-interviews_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>experiences regarding Later life preparation<\/strong><\/a> are documented and shared. In conclusion, in case you are interested in background information about demographic change in Europe, please have a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/senquality.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IO1_A3_Summary-interviews_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cAgeing in Europe\u201d<\/strong><\/a> section.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Preparing and planning for Later life has no right or wrong time, a right or wrong starting point. It is mainly personal, and SenQuality project aims at giving everybody their own starting point at their own pace!!<\/p>\n<p><em>For further information regarding the project and its activities, please follow the project\u2019s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/senquality.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Website<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/activeEUelders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later Life Preparation &#8211; When does one start? The current global demographic changes are equally influenced by various socioeconomic aspects of modern lifestyle and have led or are consequence of increment in life expectancy\u2019s ratio, at least, in the so-called western world. When in one\u2019s thirties, forties or even fifties, one may not think about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":39792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,169],"tags":[176,895,1251],"class_list":["post-39809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-en","category-general","tag-erasmus-en","tag-seniors-en-3","tag-senquality-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p-consulting.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}