Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities

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Overcoming Barriers and Seizing

Opportunities: Co-ordinating ActiveAgeing Policies in Europe

Jolanta Perek-Biaas

Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October 2005


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Agenda

Aims

Methodology

Main results in all 4 AA fields

Conclusions

Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005


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Aims

Conduct panel-led consultations in 10countries to identify barriers to theimplementation of active ageing policies andsuggest ways of seizing opportunities

Point to workable policy tools, institutionalmechanism and policy innovations for AA

Highlight ways of incorporating AA concernsinto reforms

Explore means of co-ordinating policy effortsacross different levels of governance



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Expert meetings Time (April-July 2005)

Participants (about 7-9 per country,affiliation)

Duration of the meeting (from 4 to 7 hours)

Consultation documents

Deroulment/ Athmosphere



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General agenda of themeeting

Visions What is future in ageing Europe?

What is Active Ageing?

Implications Evaluation:

Barriers/Opportunities in LM,PS,HC,SOVA

Ways to overcome barriers and seize theopportunities

Conclusions and Policy Implications



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Active ageing

active ageing does notconcern a certainage but is something which should be

included in individual planning for life but

which should be pre-structured by society.

And the distinction between phases of life is

certainly not a question of biological age.

(German country report)



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Barriers in general

Discrimination of older people

Cost of ageing

Policy-making and policy debate in Europe isfundamentally misguided



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Barriers/Opportunites in LM


Inadequate skillsand qualifications

Discriminaion by agein work

Intergenerationalrelations in work

Life-long learningconstant educationsystem

Promotion, showbest practises

New work ability

program Mentoring


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Barriers/Opportunites in PS

Lack of possibility tocombine work andpension

If it is possibility to work

at old age penalized insocial security taxation

Pensioners livingstandars


Flexibity of work andpension

Abolish higher socialsecurity taxes on older

workers Change in the system in

order to have moreincentives


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Barriers/Opportunites in HC

No health preventiveprograms

Increasing cost ofhealth careexpenditures

Lack of differentlevel of co-operation

(private/public, etc.)


Health promotionand education(society)

The multi-specializedmedical team ofcomplementary

treatment


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Barriers/Opportunites in SOVA

Exluded group:

little organized/lackof co-operation

not so many activitiesFOR them and BYthem

external (ie.transport)

internal (personality,isolation)


Mobilisation ofolder people in all

aspects of life andsociety


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Ways to overcome barriers LM:

training system

organization of the work for younger and older

promotion, education

co-operation between companies and authorities ondifferent level, also NGOs

PS: changes (financial, law)

HC: reform (ie. EE), also wider co-operation andprevention

SOVA: i.e. French example



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Common European Active Ageing

Agenda is possible?

Active LM strategies

Pensions that empower Integrated health and social services

Extend and strengthen democraticrights of older persons



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Common European Active AgeingAgenda?


setting priorities in family policy which will allow for

a longer integration of older people into the family

networking between organisations in the field of

scholarship, economy and voluntary engagement

and in-between all fields of active ageing.

based on existing resources (economic, healthcare,

education), a change in awareness and behaviour

has taken place. Participation by older people has

increased in general (active consumption).


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Conclusions starts new type of the debate on the ageing

(active ageing) also outside the academiccommunity

individual vs. group way of thinking

too many barriers - still not enough ways howto overcome them

differences in definition, understanding of thesame

need for policy recommendations is not soevident


Documents

Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities