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TRAMP – Transnational Mobility of Older People in Europe
72 Part II
2. Mobility and gender
Problems and obstacles
• Differing degrees of mobility of male and female participants
• Different needs and interests with regards to programme contents
Information
• Women of higher age are more often willing to travel alone because they
are more often widowed than men. Women more often than men indicate
that driving or using public transport is an impediment to their mobility
at home or while travelling.
• More than 70% of women are involved more often in housing care of
relatives and are thus less mobile.
Recommendations
• Since women on the one hand often travel alone, yet while doing so see
major barriers to mobility, we recommend travelling arrangements for the
whole group and advise against individual modes of transportation or difficult
and unmanageable travelling distances during the project. A pickup
service for the routes to the various venues might be necessary in this
case.
• Announcements for programmes should be linked with information on
help concerning care issues (as for example the right to a four-week exemption
for the caregiver, paid short-term care).
• In the programme content the different interests of men and women in
mixed groups should be considered. Preparatory meetings can be used to
find out about these interests and include them in the planning. In case
there are greater differences, separate offers or a temporary separation of
the group might be considered.
3. Participants with migration background
Problems and obstacles
• Problems of accessibility of people with an immigrant background
Information
• Many immigrants lack sufficient knowledge of access to education, they
do not respond to the programme’s presentation or they do not feel secure
in the groups.
• There are too few opportunities for people with a migration background,
often the programmes do not meet the needs of the target group or suitable
programmes do not reach the target group.
• “Migrants” are no more a homogeneous group than “the elderly”. The
target group is not treated in a differentiated way.