Bulletin of European Policies on Senior Citizens

Demographic change is forcing both national governments and European policy-makers to consider the social changes resulting from population ageing as an across-the-board issue that affects a great range of very different policy areas: pensions and employment, urban and regional planning, immigration, integration, education, volunteering and policies for families and senior citizens etc. The Member States of the European Union have adopted a variety of approaches and strategies to deal with similar issues.

In order to gather information and ideas that could foster the development of policies on intergeneration relations and ageing in Germany, the "Observatory for Sociopolitical Developments in Europe" has, since 2010, been monitoring the development of sociopolitical measures and policies on demographic change at European level as well as in individual Member States.

The Monitor of European Policies on Senior Citizens represents a research concept that hopes to examine the latest sociopolitical measures and developments for the elderly in eight Member States on the basis of the following key words: Active ageing – Images of age and ageing – Dementia – Care – Support for informal carers – Services for the elderly – Intergenerational relations.

The Bulletin on the Monitor of European Policies on Senior Citizens summarises the most important results of this research for you.

The authors of the Bulletin are Kathrin Linz-Dinchel and Sabrina Stula.