ABSTRACT
The process of progressive population ageing is a multidimensional phenomenon that influences various spheres of the whole life of a society, including older people. Demographic drivers of population ageing such as increasing longevity, falling fertility and outward migration of younger people for permanent stay, especially abroad, generate this process. However, in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the socio-political changes that occurred after the Second World War, not experienced by West European countries, undoubtedly had an additional impact on the social and economic status of older people.
