Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society: Release of the new SHARE book
29 October 2015 - 29 October 2015
Belgium
Speeches by Marianne Thyssen, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility and from representatives of European Commission’s Directorates General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Research and Innovation, and Health will be given. Additionally a selection of significant results will be presented by SHARE researchers.
Population ageing is a secular challenge which will strain the fabric of Europe’s societies. Some of the key questions that will be discussed at the event are:
- Ever more retirees will demand taxes and pension contributions from ever fewer younger workers. Will this create tensions between generations?
- Health is improving but at high costs. Are our societies willing to bear these costs?
- Older workers have accumulated a lot of experience. Will this, however, offset the loss of innovative energy by the young?
- The oldest old are the fastest growing population segment. Will there be sufficient capacity for long-term care when it will be needed? Will informal caregivers (usually daughters) feel lonelier, more socially excluded and more depressive?
- Will the digital divide create increasing tensions where older workers with good computer skills will be happier – and retire later – than those unskilled who stay behind?
Venue: Palais des Académies, rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels
Time: 13:00 - 17:00
Please. find more information about SHARE on website www.share-eric.eu
To register, please, send an email to Stephanie Lasson: lasson@mea.mpisoc.mpg.de
Media inquiries:
Mr Declan Kirrane
ISC
declan.kirrane@iscintelligence.com
+32 494 346 040
Population ageing is a secular challenge which will strain the fabric of Europe’s societies. Some of the key questions that will be discussed at the event are:
- Ever more retirees will demand taxes and pension contributions from ever fewer younger workers. Will this create tensions between generations?
- Health is improving but at high costs. Are our societies willing to bear these costs?
- Older workers have accumulated a lot of experience. Will this, however, offset the loss of innovative energy by the young?
- The oldest old are the fastest growing population segment. Will there be sufficient capacity for long-term care when it will be needed? Will informal caregivers (usually daughters) feel lonelier, more socially excluded and more depressive?
- Will the digital divide create increasing tensions where older workers with good computer skills will be happier – and retire later – than those unskilled who stay behind?
Venue: Palais des Académies, rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels
Time: 13:00 - 17:00
Please. find more information about SHARE on website www.share-eric.eu
To register, please, send an email to Stephanie Lasson: lasson@mea.mpisoc.mpg.de
Media inquiries:
Mr Declan Kirrane
ISC
declan.kirrane@iscintelligence.com
+32 494 346 040
Keywords
aging; elder people; caregivers; employment; retirement; welfare; economy