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"The European Commission wants 2012 to be the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity Between Generations, using a vague concept of active ageing which could encompass many ideas, including some that are negative towards elderly people, this being evident in the contradictions of the report. On the one hand, it places an emphasis on the need for better employment opportunities, better health and safety conditions at work for older workers, more cooperation between young people, through the training of young workers by elderly workers and volunteering so that the elderly may share their skills, insisting on more active policies regarding family matters and raising the issue of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
On the other hand, there is cross-cutting support for the increase in the retirement age, in that it points out that ‘healthy ageing can help raise labour market participation of older people, [and] enable them to be active in society for longer’. It adds that one of the effects of demographic ageing will be a change to European social models, aiming to reduce ‘the strains on health, pensions and social care systems’. We disagree with this vision, which aims to punish elderly people for their longer lives, while also harming young people and contributing to increasing unemployment."@en1
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