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Released workers and employees in their 6th Decennium. A new generation of pensioners. Report on the central outcomes of an experts meeting on this topic. More and more workers and employees leave their working places and renumerated employment for good from the age of 50 onwards, by way of acknowledged incapacity to continue work due to health reasons, unemployment, forced retirement after production plants have closed down and early retirement schemes. How retirement is experienced very much depends on the living conditions encountered and on the process of transition to retirement. Acceptancy of premature retirement is of central importance, as are the opportunities of influencing by one's own decisions the age of retirement, the predictability of this event and the chances of transition through a phase of gradual re-orientation. Differentiation between those with good and very good income levels and those with only minimal financial means is imperative. Negative outcomes of the latter situation may be a feeling of total hopelessness, frictions within the family, reduction of social contacts and of out-of-door activities, a tendency to hide away in shame. To be labelled as old in too early a phase in life is not acceptable. The social status attained tends to be unclearly defined with accompanying negative effects on the self-concept as well as on the image held by others.

Langue : ALLEMAND

Tiré à part : OUI

Identifiant basis : 1986000247