Forscher aus den USA und Österreich haben jetzt vorgerechnet, dass die Menschen in den meisten Ländern nicht nur immer länger leben, sondern auch länger gesünder leben. Das ist schon mal eine gute Nachricht, da deshalb vielleicht die Ängste vor einer Vergreisung der Gesellschaft und den damit verbundenen Kosten möglicherweise entkräftet werden können.
Wie haben sie das gemacht? In der “old age dependency ratio" (OADR), die von den United Nations is prepared periodically to member countries, will have to describe the proportion of over-65s in society who participate because of their age no longer economically active and therefore be supported by the rest of society.
The criteria for this ratio in the view of Warren Sanderson of the Stony Brook University in New York but is deprecated. It rests on the premise that people over 65 old and thus no longer able to work. But that applies at least to the developed world no longer.
Most people today are at 65 is not dependent on the help of other people. Many care even - quite the contrary - to the care of others (eg their own or their parents). A now 60-year-old man has the same life expectancy as a 43-year-old at the beginning of the 19th Century. But then it was 60 years old, the Bismarck also knew and worked well so its pension model. Today, life is really going on until 66 years (at least with people like Udo Jürgens). For many over 60-year-old not only feel subjectively young, they are also objectively free from diseases or disabilities.
Wie haben sie das gemacht? In der “old age dependency ratio" (OADR), die von den United Nations is prepared periodically to member countries, will have to describe the proportion of over-65s in society who participate because of their age no longer economically active and therefore be supported by the rest of society.
The criteria for this ratio in the view of Warren Sanderson of the Stony Brook University in New York but is deprecated. It rests on the premise that people over 65 old and thus no longer able to work. But that applies at least to the developed world no longer.
Most people today are at 65 is not dependent on the help of other people. Many care even - quite the contrary - to the care of others (eg their own or their parents). A now 60-year-old man has the same life expectancy as a 43-year-old at the beginning of the 19th Century. But then it was 60 years old, the Bismarck also knew and worked well so its pension model. Today, life is really going on until 66 years (at least with people like Udo Jürgens). For many over 60-year-old not only feel subjectively young, they are also objectively free from diseases or disabilities.
The OADR has lost its meaning, therefore, argues Sanderson, together with scientists from Austria (Vienna Institute of Demography ind International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg bei Wien) eine neue “adult disability dependency ratio” (ADDR) als Maßstab für die Belastung der Gesellschaft durch alte Menschen vorschlägt.
Der neue Massstab der ADDR basiert auf Untersuchungen zur Lebenserwartung frei von Behinderungen, und die Berechnungen zeigen, dass die Gesellschaft in den Industrieländern in den letzten Jahrzehnten keineswegs gebrechlicher geworden ist.
Während die OAD-Ratio sich in Deutschland bis 2045/50 von jetzt 0,33 auf 0,63 fast verdoppelt, prognostizieren die Forscher für die ADD-Ratio nur einen minimalen Anstieg von 0,12 auf 0,15. Das hat eine Konsequenz, die auf den first glance, many worries: from the perspective of demographers is why that is justified to raise the retirement age. The planned increase in the retirement age, we must therefore not be regarded as a human catastrophe, but we should understand this as a sign of youthful society.
The fact I can also only connect. Let's assume that we should be in the course of 40 years of life in a position to look for us in a paid employment, which makes us happy, or at work, with which we fill a large part of our day, a certain recognize meaning, then yes work is not necessarily the same sentence - not even a certain Age of time.
And for skeptics, I've still a good / evil Tip: If you are self - then you are never sick.
Source: aerzteblatt.de
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