Suhler Generationengespräch 2013 Herzlich Willkommen ! Welcome! Suhler Generationengespräch 2013...

Suhler Generationengespräch 2013

Herzlich Willkommen!

Welcome!

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Bounce

Your task: discover as many experiences as possible that you and your partner both

have in common!

Each answered question gives you 1 point. Winner is the team with the most points.

1. What is something you both have made with your own hands?

2. What is a place that you both have visited?

3. What book have both of you read?

4. In which country do both of you have a friend, family member or aquaintance?

5. What strange animal have both of you encountered once?

6. What movie have both of you watched in the cinemas?

7. What song can both of you sing?

Florence Detlor, LA

The oldest woman on FacebookSource: Facebook, 2012


So, what‘s the problem with an aging society?



The optimism of Politics

Körber-Stiftung


„The best predicted crisis that I know about.“Herwig Birg, German demographer responding to an interview

question about the demographic change

The pessimism of everybody else?

According to EuroStat projections for the year 2060

between 27-29% of the European population will

be over 65 years old (from 17.4% in 2011)

Source:http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Population_structure_and_ageing/de


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Why demography matters!?


Growing life expectancy, decreasing population and

an aging democracy changes the social structure of our

societies and will define the political agenda

of tomorrow.



How does demographic change relate to intergenerationalconflicts?

And what‘s in the news today?


Social attitutes towards aging and old people

Biased associations and prejudices of youngers towards aging and elders

Failing connections of lifestyles and exchange between old and young?

Shifting democratic powers towards a „Gerontocracy“?

Growing generational gaps?

Psychological and economic challenges that start to affect allready present generations

Age and Technology


Is Technology the answer to the challange of aging?

Care Robots

… and Ambient AssistedLiving (AAL)


Our Smart Seniours of Tomorrow? …


Leon Trotzky, Diary in Exile

“Youth is wasted on the young.”Oscar Wilde

“I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.”Hugh Hefner

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If there are conflicts, we‘ll need a dialog in our civil society.

Reconnecting young and old

We can‘t leave the intergenerational challenges to Politics and Technology.

And at least of all to the Demographers themselves.

Cross-generational

Forward looking


What do you think? Is there an intergenerational conflict?

And if so, how are we going to solve it?

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