Social work student in Slovenia experiences a week of growing old

Špela is a student at the Faculty for Social Work in Ljubljana in Slovenia, and she spent a week with an older person to get experience of how interesting it can be as an older person. This is the kind of experience every social work student should have.

See Špela’s blog about her experience here: Living with Veronika for a week

This is all part of the HelpAge International campaign ‘Make it Ageless’. It want older people’s voices to be heard everywhere in the world. If you want to, you can join a ‘virtual march’ to support them, from the same page, without leaving your computer.You can see the website here: The Make it Ageless campaign and signing up for the 'Virtual March'.