Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128275 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CASE Network Studies & Analyses No. 470
Publisher: 
Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw
Abstract: 
The aim of this work is to present an in depth understanding of the conceptual framework of active ageing policies, which have been created and implemented in Poland. The discussion of active ageing in employment in Poland started relatively late. The first discussions on the unfavourable situation of elderly employment emerged only in the second half of the 1990s, when the debate on the pension system reform started. While only a few ageing policies were developed at the national level during that time, several interesting initiatives were undertaken at a regional level and in the third sector. They were mostly focused on productive ageing and the problems associated with the economic activation of people over 50. The intensive implementation of the active ageing policies in Poland started in 2012, during the European Year of Active Ageing. At present, there is an intense discussion on policies addressed to the elderly, which concentrate not only on the activation of the labour market, but also on healthy, active and socially inclusive ageing, education andcivil engagement. This paper concludes that despite intense work being done by public authorities, the concept still needs a deeper implementation - especially at the regional level. Furthermore, close observation and evaluation of the activation programmes is still missing and the identification and implementation of good practices which are already being developed in other European countries is under-used.
Subjects: 
Active Ageing
Elderly
Public Policy
JEL: 
I38
J14
J48
ISBN: 
978-83-7178-603-7
Document Type: 
Research Report

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