Ageing and technology
Editorial: transcript Verlag
Licencia: Creative Commons (by-nc-nd)
Autor(es): Domínguez, Emma y Nierling, L.
Our present society can be characterized by expectations of reaching old age and thus having a long life: life expectancy has constantly risen for the last 150 years in industrialised countries – mainly due to better living conditions, higher hygienic standards and improved medical care (Schwentker/Vaupel 2011; Hülsken-Giesler/Krings 2015). The high life expectancy we face today is indeed a success for our present ageing society, although it is very often negatively connoted and mainly discussed in the context of a “crisis” in demographic change. Among many similar statistical overviews, the EU Ageing Report 2012 states that “one in three Europeans will be over 65 by 2060. The ratio of working people to the ‘inactive’ others is shifting from 4 to 1 today to 2 to 1 by 2060” (European Commission 2012: online).
[Bielefeld: 2016]
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