The experience in Social Farms is an opportunity for aggregation and improvementof life quality and psychophysical well-being, according to the WHO’s definition of active aging as a “process of optimizing health opportunities, participation and safety to improve people’s quality of life”. Social Agriculture (SA) is part of a welfare model in which environmental protection, enhancement, as well as people well-being and socialintegration, can find their maximum expression. A preliminary desk analysis to sizenumber,sectors of specialization andrecipients of companies operating in SA in Italy was conducted. Therefore, a case study was conductedon a sample of 19 companies located in Calabria and Sicilia (Italy) to analyse their activities and the psychophysical wellbeing parameters linked to the stay in natural environments by the over65 people attending them on regular basis / residential mode.
SOCIAL AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: A CASE STUDY
Sonia Vivona
Relatore esterno
;Alessandra PatitucciMembro del Collaboration Group
;Angela MagarielloMembro del Collaboration Group
2025
Abstract
The experience in Social Farms is an opportunity for aggregation and improvementof life quality and psychophysical well-being, according to the WHO’s definition of active aging as a “process of optimizing health opportunities, participation and safety to improve people’s quality of life”. Social Agriculture (SA) is part of a welfare model in which environmental protection, enhancement, as well as people well-being and socialintegration, can find their maximum expression. A preliminary desk analysis to sizenumber,sectors of specialization andrecipients of companies operating in SA in Italy was conducted. Therefore, a case study was conductedon a sample of 19 companies located in Calabria and Sicilia (Italy) to analyse their activities and the psychophysical wellbeing parameters linked to the stay in natural environments by the over65 people attending them on regular basis / residential mode.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
