Demography. Poland is aging. Polish seniors doomed to poverty
A mushroom with a growing hat. Is the Polish senior destined to poverty?
Poles are decreasing and socially aging, this may be above the demographic indicator. Who will run for retirement? Are the elderly doomed to poverty? – This top of the pyramid widens and repeats more and more to remind you that I was singing better and better. This is a problem – says prof. dr. dr hab. Piotr Błędowski from the Warsaw School of Economics, specialist in the field of social gerontology. According to collapsed, poverty from the generation of seniors is next.
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In the last 10 years, the number of the Polish population has increased by 474. The number of people aged fell to 4 percent, with an even greater increase in the number of aged population – by more than 5 percent to 59.3 percent. The only demographic group whose productive age is people, which constitute 22.3 percent of Poles.
We expect from waiting for problems and delayed, waiting for waiting waiting social tasks. delays prof. dr hab. Piotr Błędowski with Of the Warsaw School of Economics, author of the PolSenior 2 research, illustrating the socio-economic situation and the quality of life of older Poles.
Tomasz Leżoń: Professor, my mother, who turned 74 this year, repeats that God has not succeeded in getting old. Would you come under that title?
Prof. Piotr Błędowski: I guess I would be careful. Because one of the best solutions to the topic of old age is that it deals with this period as the only part of our life. Meanwhile, old age lasts longer and therefore is more varied. If we adopt today the conventionally old age limit at the level of 65, then we have more and more people reaching 90, 95 years of age. This is a 30-year period in which changes take place, both in the state of mental health and the condition of personal, other person, material and physical. There are plenty of these changes. And in general, we can say that we have such a division into “young old” and “old old”. More elegantly, we have a division into the third and fourth centuries.
It is assumed that the third age is the period from the beginning of old age to the age of 80, and the fourth age is 80 years or more. This first stage is characterized by greater agility and activity of the elderly compared to previous living seniors. The latter – unfortunately, does not always have the same features, although it is not the case that everyone who has reached 80 years old has changed right away or someone else has changed. But this period of younger old age is certainly much richer than it used to be.
There are fewer and fewer of us and we are getting older. Every fifth inhabitant of Poland is over 60 years old. Is this phenomenon up to date?
I would not dramatize. Almost all of us in Europe have one like this, here are few exceptions. Every now and then, news appears in the press that we are a dying nation. Nicgo. We were indeed eluding us, but this is not the pace that would be very disturbing.
You don’t see any situations?
The problem from the point of view of the governance of society is that there is no current number of current people, the percentage of people in the entire society, currently 18 percent. This is because the number of births is decreasing. As a society in which young people are shrinking, a share of people in good standing has started to be achieved. This top of the pyramid widens and begins to better remind you that it is being called a hat more and more. Just a problem. Looking at the scale not only on the method as the means but on the reliable means. Consolidated times that one should be concerned about these words, that membership is rapidly declining This is due to demographic changes. The remedies for this agenda are paradoxically re-activity in order to obtain pro-natalist information, in efforts to increase the number of operations.
Who will pay contributions, illegal disbursement and retirement benefits, the number will be replenished?
I hope this is a question that politicians from every group are wondering about. We have a systemic one, they pay for retirement employees in the employee year. It is such an unwritten agreement that when they live to see the inmates, the one-year-old will do the same. This deal turns out to be real. It cannot be changed by changing the proportions by group.
What could be the way out of the situation?
At the other end of the various equity fund financing options, we have what is known as equity methods. It consists in the fact that everyone puts money aside for their own retirement from the beginning of their correction. But I do what I do and not on the road. However, we have the world more and more often, we deal with unemployment, which is objective in nature. As a result of globalization to the fact that there are economic successes, progress is deepening, or the impact on the level of employment may be changed. So this method will not be effective either. Create more searches for new searches.
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