EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Managing Change: Impact of demographic ageing for cities - Active ageing, Gender and Employment policies

Managing Change: Impact of demographic ageing for cities - Active ageing, Gender and Employment policies

Introduction

This project focuses on the issue of demographic ageing that is a characteristic of all EU member states. In the EU25 the proportion of elderly people (aged 65 and more) will increase from 16.4% in 2004 to 29.9% in 2050 or from 75.3 million in 2004 to 134.5 million in 2050. The highest proportions of elderly people in 2050 are expected in Spain (35.6%), Italy (35.3%), and Greece (32.5%)). As far as the elderly dependency ratio is concerned (population aged 65 and more as a percentage of population aged between 15 and 64), this means that, whereas in 2004 there was one inactive person (young or elderly) for every two persons of working age, in 2050 there would be three inactive persons for every four of working age.

Description

The impact of demographic ageing will, however, differ from city to city and from region to region, but it will influence nearly every sphere of life: labour markets, housing markets, social security systems, infrastructure, urban/spatial planning, education, budgets and finances. The partners in this network have through the base line study and linked local mapping highlighted the following common sub- themes that will form the basis of the transnational exchange:

Ageing: employment and economic growth (enterprise and the “silver” economy)
Impact on care systems/arrangements
Ageing and insecurity

On these themes, the project partners hope to identify good practices.

Project start date

01/01/2007

Links

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Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy

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