@article{2018,title={ACTİVE AGİNG POLİCY: THE ACTİVE AGİNG PERCEPTİONS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO STAYED WİTH THEİR FAMİLY SUPPORTED BY HOME CARE AİD AND WHO STAYED AT NURSİNG HOMES},abstractNode={The aim of this research is to compare the institutional care and home care processes in terms of social support with regard to active aging policy and to make inferences in the context of social policies. Along with the aging of the societies, the importance of policies and services for elderly is increasing in our country in parallel with the developed countries. Active aging policies targeting the long-term and the whole society are being implemented as effective aging policy in recent years. Since the announcement of 2012 as the "Active Aging Year", strategies are being determined in national action plans and various scientific meetings related to the subject, and the process is supported with various projects and activities. Active aging is a process that aims to raise the quality of life for the elderly on the basis of health, safety and participation principles set by WHO. Preventive health practices, lifelong education, retention of the elderly in the workplace, providing social security, aging in the community, the existence of social support networks, intergenerational solidarity, prevention of prejudice and discrimination against elderly individuals are the prominent aspects of active aging. Certain levels of the needs of care and daily activities arise in the aging process. İnstitutional care and home care options will be used when it comes to the care process. The active aging policy provide for aging individuals to age within their own living environments and social support networks within society. In this context, active aging perceptions of the elderly lived in nursing homes and elderly individuals who took care of their family supported by home care aid were evaluated and the, independence perception, healthy perception, economic trust, intergenerational solidarity, respect / esteem perceptions and the total active aging perceptions were found to be significantly higher in the home care recipients in this study. In addition, active aging perception and especially independent and healthy perception were found higher in females than males and it was determined that active aging perception decreased with age. Apart from the type of care service, the quality of relationships with families of elderly also affects active aging in all dimensions. When care is provided in the old age period, the most important element for these people is the availability of close social support networks. Therefore, it would be a good practice for elderly people to stay with their family with support and incentives such as home care aid if they are not alone for active aging process.},author={Yusuf GENÇ-- Melike PAK - Melike PEHLİVAN},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}