{"id":39122,"date":"2025-12-22T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnews.cz\/?p=39122"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:27:48","slug":"jaroslav-pollak-bridges-of-cooperation-must-connect-generations-not-just-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/videa\/jaroslav-pollak-mosty-spoluprace-musi-spojovat-i-generace-nejen-staty\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaroslav Poll\u00e1k: Bridges of cooperation must connect generations, not just countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br><strong>President of the association\u00a0<em>Dignified ageing \u2013 a generation for the future<\/em>\u00a0At the end of the meeting devoted to Czechia-China relations, Jaroslav Poll\u00e1k spoke about a topic that, in his opinion, is often overlooked in debates \u2013 the position of senior citizens in society.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poll\u00e1k emphasised that senior citizens should not be marginalised in public life or left in uncertainty about what will happen to them in the future. According to him, it is necessary to talk not only about economics, politics and international relations, but also about dignified ageing and intergenerational connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He picked up on the idea of \u201ebridges\u201c that came up during the meeting in connection with international cooperation. According to Poll\u00e1k, it is equally important to build bridges between young and old. It is for this reason that he founded an association that aims to connect seniors with younger generations and create space for joint solutions to social problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, another interesting area of cooperation is the exchange of experiences with other countries, including China. Poll\u00e1k said that he would be interested to learn how care for the elderly works in Chinese society and what models could serve as inspiration for the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201eI'm not a politician, I'm a senior citizen.\u201c <\/em>Poll\u00e1k emphasised in conclusion. According to him, the voices of older people should be heard more often in such discussions, because the issue of dignified ageing concerns everyone \u2013 sooner or later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His speech concluded the meeting with an appeal for the topic of senior citizens to become a natural part of debates on the future of society and international cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/czech.cgtn.com\/2025\/12\/22\/ARTI1766392459288296\" title=\"\">CMG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaroslav Poll\u00e1k, president of the association D\u016fstojn\u00e9 st\u00e1\u0159\u00ed \u2013 generace pro budoucnost (Dignified Old Age \u2013 Generation for the Future), concluded the meeting on Czechia-China relations by raising an issue which, in his opinion, is...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2968,550],"tags":[18,403,8976,8977,8979,8978],"class_list":["post-39122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domaci","category-videa","tag-cmg","tag-duchody","tag-jaroslav-pollak-2","tag-seniori","tag-socialni-politika-2","tag-spolecenske-problemy","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39123,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122\/revisions\/39123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}