A A senior co-production? Analysis of selected cases of local initiatives for seniors in low and middle income countries

In 2015, the WHO Centre for Health Development established an international team of researchers to study cases of Community-Based Social Innovations that Support Older People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. The key criterion for the selection of the analyzed projects was the direct involvement of institutional and non-institutional representatives of local communities in the implementation of projects whose main purpose was to support and activate older people. The conceptual and methodological assumptions did not refer to the idea of co-production. However, the conceptual apparatus used and the scope of the conducted exploration justify attempts to determine the potential for occurrence of the senior co-production within these initiatives. The “senior” character of the potential co-production was deliberately emphasized here, because in the presented analysis, the author focused mainly on the characteristics of activities undertaken by elderly people who each time constituted a group of basic beneficiaries (recipients) of organized services.