Help, the elderly are coming! The steadily swelling army of elderly people threatens to undermine the financial stability of the European Union in the coming decades. Already, four working Europeans together have to provide the pension of one other European. In 30 years, if nothing changes, two working people will cough up one fellow citizen’s pension.
The Dutch government is active changing the labour- and social system and with emancipating the elderly. In the future elderly have to emancipate and become as independent as possible. Younger people and all organisations have to get used to the fact that they will have to do more for society, for example by doing volunteers work.
Some Dutch specialists conclude that the complete system has to be changed into a socially responsible system as soon as possible to absorb the devastating bang of the demographic time bomb.
BBC news produces a reportage with a few examples of Dutch elderly at work and employment agencies that especially focuses on elderly employees.
For this production Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning of the filming.