Parallel Session - As global populations age, understanding and addressing the implications of demographic change on individual and societal well-being has risen high on the policy agenda. While the health status and living standards of older people have substantially improved over the last decades in OECD and other countries, the experience of old age is going to change dramatically for today’s younger generations. Longer life expectancy, declining family size, extended working lives, and fiscal constraints – combined with climate change, digital transformation, and other structural and environmental shifts – are drastically reshaping well-being outcomes, drivers, and policy responses. It is crucial to better understand the well-being impacts of ageing societies, both for elderly populations, as well as through the life course, and this session showcased a range of relevant research and practice examples.
This session was moderated by Monika Queisser, Head of Social Policy Division, OECD.
