[Intergenerational relations and intragenerational conditions].
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Aged↗
Biomedical subjects
G Naegele
Publications and source records attributed to G Naegele.
[The parlamentary inquiry commission into the demographic change presents its final report].
In the spring of 2002, the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission into the Demographic Change finished its work and published its final report. The commission has been working for more than 10 years to analyze the challenges posed to the individual and society by the aging German society in a mid- and long-term perspective (up to 2050). The respective policy recommendations refer to the following issues: housing and living environments, intergenerational relations, family relations and other social networks, competence and productivity in old age, income security, demographic change and its effects on economic trends and the labor market, health, health care, long-term care and social services, migration and integration and the implications of the increasing cultural diversity in society and among the elderly.
Aged↗
Recent developments in the employment and retirement of older workers in Germany.
Against a background of an aging population, rising social security costs, and foreseeable labor and skill shortages, there have been public policy changes affecting older workers in Germany. Labor-market related initiatives aim at an increase of labor force participation among this group. Enterprise-related, active age-management strategies aim at improving occupational conditions of aging workers. In this context, prolonging the working life must be seen as one option of "active aging." Another view of the current retirement discussion is the question of how the unused potential of Germany's younger, early-retired seniors can be exploited. Active aging has become a social duty nowadays, with the intention that older persons contribute to society to avoid generational conflicts. In the future, active aging will preserve the competitiveness of enterprises and of the entire economy, despite an aging labor force. But gerontological research points out that different options to carry out individual life plans of active aging are also required. This article reviews the changes in public policies towards older workers and includes the findings of a project that illustrates good practice to combat age barriers in the labor world.
Aged↗
[Active measures for promoting the employment of aging workers--report of an inclusive European Union Specialty Congress in Turku, Finland].
This article summarizes the most important results of the Turku Conference on active strategies for an aging workforce, which took place in Turku/Finland in 1999. About 140 experts from all EU-member states participated. The article can be seen as a contribution to the current change in the debate on labor market policy concerning older workers in Germany.
Aged↗
Gradual retirement in Germany.
In the summer of 1996, the German parliament enacted legislation (the "Gesetz zur Förderung cines gleitenden Ubergangs in den Ruhestand") that would allow a gradual transition from work to retirement by permitting workers 55 years and older to change from full-time to part-time work, and also by making it more difficult to take early retirement. The intent was to stop the trend towards early retirement. This article discusses the provisions of the new legislation, as well as the experiences with previous models that influenced its development. These experiences were mainly negative because older workers were unwilling to change to part-time work and employers did not provide attractive part-time work opportunities. The new legislation's chances of success are discussed and suggestions are offered for making the concept of gradual transition from work to retirement more attractive and viable.
Adolescent↗
Discrimination of older workers in Germany: obstacles and options for the integration into employment.
The employment prospects of older workers in Germany are widely endangered because of age discrimination. The main indicator concerning recruitment is that from the age of 45 on the difficulties in finding a new job rise extraordinarily and, accordingly, the duration of unemployment rises. Concerning further training, there is a lack of participation by older workers in vocational training and, additionally, they face numerous risks in the deterioration of their skills. Given the long-term implications of the aging labor force, employers must adapt their approaches to recruiting and training older workers to prevent a further loss of skills and know-how. A comprehensive strategy for integrating older workers and overcoming age barriers in employment is required. To promote recruitment, job-placement programs should be linked more closely to companies and public programs should be targeted to older unemployed workers. To promote further training of older workers, the workplace needs to create a learning environment, introduce a greater variety of tasks, and develop training schemes.
Age Factors↗
[Interprofessional cooperation in home care of disabled elderly patients. Results of a model project].
As is well known from experience, physicians, nurses, and other not-medical professions in ambulant care for elder people generally do not co-operate intensively, although there are many points of contact. With regard to this situation and the growth of the group of very old people, which request the further development of geriatric medicine and rehabilitation, a research project was realized in order to build up, improve and, as far as necessary, systematize inter-professional co-operation; this process was evaluated referring to the conditions and the effects of more intensive co-operation. This project led to several agreements concerning the improvement of co-operation; especially there are indications that the elder people in question are better cared for on the basis of intensive inter-professional co-operation and that avoidable expenses can be saved.
Aged↗
[Status of the elderly and need for rehabilitation].
The following article is a revised version of a paper read by the author at the Annual general Meeting of the federal Working Team for Rehabilitation in November 1990 in Hamburg. Basing on the increasing risk of elderly people being in need of care, the possibilities of rehabilitation also for elderly persons are discussed. The basic position of the paper is the axiom that rehabilitation should rank before caring for a person who lacks the ability to "pull himself together" and just remains passive. The paper deals with the structural features of genuine need for care and present-day medical and nursing care situation of the elderly and their relatives who look after them. Finally, the central components of an overall rehabilitation concept for elderly persons are presented.
Activities of Daily Living↗
[Determinants of the decision to retire. A contribution to the discussion on the "flexible retirement age limit" (author's transl)].
Our research intended to analyse the effects of the "Flexible Altersgrenze" (introduced in 1973) on the position of older workers. The study was designed as a casestudy in three firms of different branches of industry. We found out that all older workers planned to make use of the "Flexible Altersgrenze" in as far as their income and insurance claims permitted it. Under this scheme the retirement age would still be higher than most of the workers would prefer. The following stipulations infludenced the decision to retire: -- the state of physical health -- the strain of working-conditions in their present job and throughout their working-life -- a pessimistic view of their job prospects at that age -- unfavourable experiences with the effects of technical and organisational change in working-conditions -- the necessity of changing the job in later life because of the incapability to bear its strain.
Decision Making↗
[Consumer information activities in old age (author's transl)].
The following feature occupies with consumer information activities in old age. These informations are partial results of a study that was carried out in the Institut für Sozialforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik in Cologne by order of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Verbraucher and which deals with chances of consumer policy for people in old age (Naegele 1977). The paper's major elements are, first, essential sources of information of old people (source of supply itself, communication with relatives and friends before buying, written informations), and second, favourite sources of consumer informations to protect and to acquaint old consumers.
Aged↗
[Gliding retirement, part-time work for the aged and partial pension problems and chances for an alternative form of terminating professional life].
The article deals with chances and risks of the concept "gliding retirement". Special notice is taken of partial-pension schemes. Possible consequences for employees with respect to their financial situation and to their working-conditions are discussed.
Aged↗
[Early retirement--a new area of research in gerontology. Report on the international workshop "Early Retirement" in Jerusalem/Israel].
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Adaptation, Psychological↗
[Review of important results of the research project "Employees in the late phase of their employment"].
The report deals with the main results of recent field-studies on the situation of workers over 55 years of age in the F.R.G. The investigations were carried out for the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and refer to the period from 1975 to 1979/1980. The main results refer to the situation at work, in the labour market and to the conditions and the process of retirement. The results reported are representative for industry in the F.R.G. (excluding administrative departments) with reference to firms with 50 and more employees and for the period of time under investigation.
Aged↗
["Released" employees of the 6th decade--a new retirement generation. Report on central results of a meeting of experts on the topic].
More and more workers and employees leave their working places and renumerated employment for good from the age of 50 onwards - by way of acknowledged incapacity to continue work due to health reasons, unemployment, forced retirement after production plants have closed down and early retirement schemes. How retirement is experienced very much depends on the living conditions encountered and on the process of transition to retirement. Acceptancy of premature retirement is of central importance - as are the opportunities of influencing by one's own decisions the age of retirement, the predictability of this event and the chances of transition through a phase of gradual re-orientation. Differentiation between those with good and very good income levels and those with only minimal financial means is imperative. Negative outcomes of the latter situation may be a feeling of total hopelessness, frictions within the family, reduction of social contacts and of out-of-door activities--a tendency to hide away in shame. To be labelled as old in too early a phase in life is not acceptable. The social status attained tends to be unclearly defined with accompanying negative effects on the self-concept as well as on the image held by others.
Aged↗
[Social problems of single elderly women in West Germany. Problems and results of an empirical research into their position of life].
The article is concerned with a socio-political point of view of this question and thereby reports upon results of an empirical research study on the situation of aged women living alone in three big cities of the Federal Republic. At first it is shown that the financial problems of aged women are due to the structure of the West German social security system. Secondly it is tried to prove that the degree of social integration of aged women is determined by their economic status and by their sex-role-defined socialisation and education. The article ends in discussing the social needs of aged women living alone and in proposing short- and long-dated socio-political measures to improve their social situation.
Age Factors↗
[Requirements for security for widows according to their needs. Remarks on the discussion on dependents' allowance in West Germany].
The article is concerned with the present regulations of the old-age-pension for widows. At first the author discusses the legislator's assumptions of different financial needs between widows and widowers. Thereby he considers the last decision of the West German Bundesverfassungsgericht on the rate of the old-age-pension for widows (June 1978). New researches on the consumption of aged people give reason to criticise the present financial regulation, which places 60% of the deceased husband's old-age-pension at the widow's disposal. This is confirmed by new consumer data of the West German Statistisches Bundesamt as well as by the results of an empirical research study on the consumer behavior of aged people, carried out by the Institut für Sozialforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik, Cologne. The main interest is to show the consequences of different financial regulations for widows and widowers on their consumer behavior. In this context the article deals especially with the attitudes of aged people towards the differences in the survivor's pension and with the process of economical adaption after the death of the husband.
Age Factors↗