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Active ageing, pensions and retirement in the UK
Author(s)	Liam Foster
Journal title	Journal of Population Ageing, vol 11, no 2, June 2018
Pages	pp 117-132
Source	https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12062-017-9181-7.pdf
Keywords	Employment of older people ; Well being ; Longevity ; Postponement [retirement] ; Pensions ; Retirement policy ; United Kingdom.
Annotation	The ageing population has led to increasing concerns about pensions and their future sustainability. Much of the dominant policy discourse around ageing and pension provision over the last decade has focussed on postponing retirement and prolonging employment. These measures are central to productive notions of 'active ageing'. Initially, the paper briefly sets out pension developments in the UK. Then it introduces active ageing and active ageing policy, exploring its implications for UK pension provision. The paper demonstrates that a more comprehensive active ageing framework, which incorporates a life-course perspective, has the potential to assist the UK in responding to the challenges of an ageing population. In doing so, UK policy needs to highlight older people as an economic and social resource, and to reduce barriers to older people's participation in society. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-180717001 A
Classmark	GC: D:F:5HH: BGA: G5H: JJ: G5: 8 *
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