Tag: ageing society

With a large number of teachers approaching retirement, European schools might suffer teacher shortages in the near future, according to a study presented on Thursday (16 July) by the Eurydice network on behalf of the European Commission. The report found declining student numbers, longer compulsory schooling, and a significant rise in higher education participation among the most pertinent trends.

From 2015 onwards, deaths would outnumber births in the EU so that, by 2060, one in three Europeans will be aged over 65, putting a huge burden on the economy and public finances, the Commission warned yesterday (26 August).

With the fight against obesity currently at the centre of politicial attention, the Commission has started to acknowledge that another form of inadequate nutrition - malnutrition - also deserves consideration, particularly in the context of ageing societies.

Industrialised nations will soon be facing major problems in terms of skills and labour shortage if they do not reform their policies for retaining and re-integrating mature workers into the production process, according to a US new study. 

With populations growing older, pension and health-care reforms are urgently needed to keep eastern European and former Soviet Union countries from running into long-term fiscal problems.

Migration will not provide a long-term solution to Europe's ageing crisis. Instead, policymakers must focus on getting people to have more babies while working 'longer and better', business leaders declared at the European Business Summit.

This CEPS paper looks at recent developments in the EU and US regarding the provision of high-quality, affordable long-term care (LTC) for older people.

In an ageing Europe, a healthy society and active workforce will be key determinants of sustainable productivity and economic growth and thus key conditions for the EU's Lisbon Agenda to deliver. Human capital has for long been recognised as a contributor to economic wealth, but it is forgotten that people can only accumulate and provide human capital if they are healthy, both physically and mentally. Far too often politics consider health as a cost and not as long-term investment in human capital.

Public spending on health and long-term care in OECD countries will double by 2050, according to projections are from a new OECD report entitled Projecting OECD health and long-term care expenditures: What are the main drivers? 

What European workers want when it comes to balancing life and work is the exact opposite of what the Lisbon strategy foresees, a recent study conducted by French scientists finds.

Data on 22,000 people aged over 50 in eleven countries has been made available for scientists and social security planners to understand the challenges of Europe's ageing society better.

Amid worrying reports of a decline in the EU workforce, MEPs have backed plans for common EU rules to ease the way for legal migration.