Future elderly living conditions in Europe - FELICIE

From 2000 to 2030, the European population aged 75 and over will increase by three quaters, due to ageing pf the baby-boom cohhorts and improved survival up to beyong age 75. However, it could be grossly misleading to draw too many concluasions from such simplistic indicators, and to equate the incr...

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Main Authors: Gaymu, Joëlle, Festy, Patrick, Poulain, Michel, Beets, Gijs
Other Authors: UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Institut national d'études démographiques 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/258892
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spelling ftunistlouisbrus:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:258892 2024-05-12T08:08:33+00:00 Future elderly living conditions in Europe - FELICIE Gaymu, Joëlle Festy, Patrick Poulain, Michel Beets, Gijs UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/258892 eng eng Institut national d'études démographiques boreal:258892 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/258892 urn:ISBN:2733201638 info:eu-repo/semantics/book 2008 ftunistlouisbrus 2024-04-18T17:13:43Z From 2000 to 2030, the European population aged 75 and over will increase by three quaters, due to ageing pf the baby-boom cohhorts and improved survival up to beyong age 75. However, it could be grossly misleading to draw too many concluasions from such simplistic indicators, and to equate the increased "weight " of the ederly population with an increased "burden". The characterictics of this population will change over the coming decades as fundamentally as their numbers, essentially because the life course ofthe future ederly will have differed significantly from that of their predecessors, in terms of educational attainment, family life, workinf carreer, and so on. In FELICIE, the focus is on health of the ederly, and on the resources at their disposal to cope with the severe impairments liable to affect their quality of life. Not only personal resources -economic well-being and education attainment-but also the potential support of close kin, i.e. their partner, of course, and their children, if available.This leads to more specific question of care. One major conclusion of the FELICIE study is that the disabled older adults of the future will fare better, on average, than those of today, both on personal level, thanks to higher levels of education, and on a social level, thanks to the more frequent presence of their spouse and, at least portentially, their children. The conclusions are based on the experience of nine countries across Europe (north : Finland, Netherlands; west : Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom; south : Italy, Portugal; east : Czech Republic). In terms of both demographic and social indicators, the participating countries are fairly representative of their region. Book North Finland DIAL@USL-B (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles) Felicie ENVELOPE(-63.150,-63.150,-64.683,-64.683)
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description From 2000 to 2030, the European population aged 75 and over will increase by three quaters, due to ageing pf the baby-boom cohhorts and improved survival up to beyong age 75. However, it could be grossly misleading to draw too many concluasions from such simplistic indicators, and to equate the increased "weight " of the ederly population with an increased "burden". The characterictics of this population will change over the coming decades as fundamentally as their numbers, essentially because the life course ofthe future ederly will have differed significantly from that of their predecessors, in terms of educational attainment, family life, workinf carreer, and so on. In FELICIE, the focus is on health of the ederly, and on the resources at their disposal to cope with the severe impairments liable to affect their quality of life. Not only personal resources -economic well-being and education attainment-but also the potential support of close kin, i.e. their partner, of course, and their children, if available.This leads to more specific question of care. One major conclusion of the FELICIE study is that the disabled older adults of the future will fare better, on average, than those of today, both on personal level, thanks to higher levels of education, and on a social level, thanks to the more frequent presence of their spouse and, at least portentially, their children. The conclusions are based on the experience of nine countries across Europe (north : Finland, Netherlands; west : Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom; south : Italy, Portugal; east : Czech Republic). In terms of both demographic and social indicators, the participating countries are fairly representative of their region.
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