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Suhler Generationengespräch 2013
Herzlich Willkommen!
Welcome!
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Bounce
Your task: discover as many experiences as possible that you and your partner both
have in common!
Each answered question gives you 1 point. Winner is the team with the most points.
1. What is something you both have made with your own hands?
2. What is a place that you both have visited?
3. What book have both of you read?
4. In which country do both of you have a friend, family member or aquaintance?
5. What strange animal have both of you encountered once?
6. What movie have both of you watched in the cinemas?
7. What song can both of you sing?
Florence Detlor, LA
The oldest woman on FacebookSource: Facebook, 2012
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„The best predicted crisis that I know about.“Herwig Birg, German demographer responding to an interview
question about the demographic change
The pessimism of everybody else?
According to EuroStat projections for the year 2060
between 27-29% of the European population will
be over 65 years old (from 17.4% in 2011)
Source:http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Population_structure_and_ageing/de
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Growing life expectancy, decreasing population and
an aging democracy changes the social structure of our
societies and will define the political agenda
of tomorrow.
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How does demographic change relate to intergenerationalconflicts?
And what‘s in the news today?
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Social attitutes towards aging and old people
Biased associations and prejudices of youngers towards aging and elders
Failing connections of lifestyles and exchange between old and young?
Shifting democratic powers towards a „Gerontocracy“?
Growing generational gaps?
Psychological and economic challenges that start to affect allready present generations
Is Technology the answer to the challange of aging?
Care Robots
… and Ambient AssistedLiving (AAL)
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Our Smart Seniours of Tomorrow? …
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Leon Trotzky, Diary in Exile
“Youth is wasted on the young.”Oscar Wilde
“I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.”Hugh Hefner
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If there are conflicts, we‘ll need a dialog in our civil society.
Reconnecting young and old
We can‘t leave the intergenerational challenges to Politics and Technology.
And at least of all to the Demographers themselves.
Cross-generational
Forward looking