Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
-
Upload
kathleen-ivy-custodio -
Category
Documents
-
view
220 -
download
0
Transcript of Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
1/15
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
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
2/15
Agenda
Aims
Methodology
Main results in all 4 AA fields
Conclusions
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
3/15
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
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
4/15
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
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
5/15
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
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
6/15
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)
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
7/15
Barriers in general
Discrimination of older people
Cost of ageing
Policy-making and policy debate in Europe isfundamentally misguided
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
8/15
Barriers/Opportunites in LM
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
Inadequate skillsand qualifications
Discriminaion by agein work
Intergenerationalrelations in work
Life-long learningconstant educationsystem
Promotion, showbest practises
New work ability
program Mentoring
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
9/15
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
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
Flexibity of work andpension
Abolish higher socialsecurity taxes on older
workers Change in the system in
order to have moreincentives
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
10/15
Barriers/Opportunites in HC
No health preventiveprograms
Increasing cost ofhealth careexpenditures
Lack of differentlevel of co-operation
(private/public, etc.)
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
Health promotionand education(society)
The multi-specializedmedical team ofcomplementary
treatment
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
11/15
Barriers/Opportunites in SOVA
Exluded group:
little organized/lackof co-operation
not so many activitiesFOR them and BYthem
external (ie.transport)
internal (personality,isolation)
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
Mobilisation ofolder people in all
aspects of life andsociety
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
12/15
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
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
13/15
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
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
14/15
Common European Active AgeingAgenda?
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005
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).
-
8/6/2019 Active Ageing Barriers Opportunities
15/15
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
Active Ageing Policy in Europe Brussel, October, 2005