Active ageing: much more than paid work
Active ageing: much more than paid work

Author(s): Alan Walker
Subject(s): Labor relations, Demography and human biology, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: active ageing; paid work; working longer; working lives; Europe;
Summary/Abstract: Active ageing is firmly established as the leading global policy strategy response to population ageing. In practice, however, the term ‘active ageing’ provides a convenient slogan for a wide range of policy discourses and initiatives concerning the impact of demographic change, only some of which are worthy of the label. In particular, a productivist ideology which reduces active ageing to working longer has come to dominate these discourses.

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