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G Naegele

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[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.

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[Social services and the pressure to modernize: new needs and developmental trends in care of the elderly].

Demographic and sociostructural changes put pressure on care services for the elderly within the German welfare system: There is a need for facilities and new concepts. This also requires more and flexible domestic services, which are poorly developed in the German social system. Because the German range of care provider types is easy to navigate, there is increased demand for consumer information and recommendations. Considering the domains of care services, which have been widely distributed to the powerful non-profit welfare organizations, the status quo vs. new flexible service will challenge consumers confidence and choice, especially since todays elderly are more active and have more expendable income. The recently instituted "long-term care insurance" encourages, for the first time, competition between nonprofit organizations and commercial providers. Nevertheless, a clearly perceptible "polarization of age" draws attention to persisting challenges to social policy. Therefore, the increasing competition among types of care providers urges for a truly independent quality control, as well as an effective "welfare mix".

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[Part time work instead of early retirement: successful breakthrough for flexible and later retirement?].

In order to stop the trend towards early retirement in Germany a law to promote partial retirement recently has been passed by parliament. Concerning the impact on the labour market the raising of the pension age for older unemployed which is fixed in this law has to be seen as contraproductive and it will deteriorate the financial situation of unemployed older workers. Concerning the implementation of partial-retirement as such, there are momentous obstacles to realize part-time working arrangements in practice: the insufficient financial compensation for older workers and the obligation for employers to hire unemployed workers. Supplementary collective agreements are seen to be necessary to establish part-time work for older workers.

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