Your Hundred Year Life
Hurray, we are living longer. The bad news is pension systems are busting worldwide. With extensive old age poverty as a result. In The Netherlands the system is still solid, though inflation is hitting many pensioners here as well. Your 100-year life shows how even the richest countries have been brought to this point. Yet, there are genuine grounds for hope. It’s not too late yet. Providing we rethink the concept of retirement in general, and of old age, the quality of life as a pensioner and financing it in particular. It will make your hundredth anniversary something to celebrate.
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Hurray, we are living longer. The bad news is pension systems are busting worldwide. With extensive old age poverty as a result. In The Netherlands the system is still solid, though inflation is hitting many pensioners here as well. Your 100-year life shows how even the richest countries have been brought to this point. Yet, there are genuine grounds for hope. It’s not too late yet. Providing we rethink the concept of retirement in general, and of old age, the quality of life as a pensioner and financing it in particular. It will make your hundredth anniversary something to celebrate.
David C. John
Self / Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, AARP
Paul Johnson
Self / Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Larry Kotlikoff
Self / Professor of Economics, Boston University
Noriyuki Takayama
Self / Pres., Research Inst. for Policies on Pension & Aging
Dr. Anthony Yaw Baah
Self / General Secretary, Ghana TUC
Hayford Atta Krufi
Self / CEO, Ghana Nat. Pensions Regulatory Authority
Samuel Waterberg
Self / CEO, People's Pension Trust
Laura Trejo
Self / Gen. Mgr., City of Los Angeles Department of Aging
Helma Sick
Self / Founder, Frau & Geld Charity
Dr. Irene Gotz
Self / Prof., Inst. for Empirical Culture & Euro Ethnology