Matching Demand and Supply: Future Technologies for Active Ageing in Europe

N. Malanowski
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N. Malanowski: VDI Technology Center

Chapter 4 in The Silver Market Phenomenon, 2008, pp 41-53 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There are several paradigms concerning the general aim of extending the average human life expectancy without extending suffering. The most challenging one is “active ageing”, put forward by the World Health Organization. Active ageing in this context refers to a continuous participation in social, economic, cultural, spiritual and civic affairs, not just the ability to be physically active or part of the labour force. Active ageing views elderly people as active participants in an ageintegrated society. An interesting way to advance policy concepts to match supply and demand can be derived from focusing on promising fields of application for future technologies that generate age-based innovations. This contribution to the book argues that future technologies for active ageing provide a new and promising policy concept to tackle the challenges of ageing societies, to transform them into opportunities and to use as many as possible of the opportunities presented by ageing societies by matching demand and supply.

Keywords: European Union; Active Ageing; Future Technology; Merit Good; Preventive Application (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75331-5_4

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