If raising the retirement age is not feasible, another option might be to create more and better opportunities for retired people to engage with and contribute to society in part-time paid or volunteer work?
My impression is that here in Germany, it seems like the potential of retired people might still be underused (based on very anecdotal evidence, I didn’t research this).
In Sweden, at least among the middle classes, it’s not unusual to hire seniors for odd jobs (it’s cheaper, you pay less taxes), e.g. via services like this one. It’s kind of a win-win situation: one party gets to hire someone for pretty cheap to get something done (e.g. some garden work or handiwork—I’m guessing quite often things they wouldn’t have paid anyone to do otherwise), and the other gets some extra money, human interactions and the satisfaction of non-backbreaking manual labour.
If raising the retirement age is not feasible, another option might be to create more and better opportunities for retired people to engage with and contribute to society in part-time paid or volunteer work?
My impression is that here in Germany, it seems like the potential of retired people might still be underused (based on very anecdotal evidence, I didn’t research this).
In Sweden, at least among the middle classes, it’s not unusual to hire seniors for odd jobs (it’s cheaper, you pay less taxes), e.g. via services like this one. It’s kind of a win-win situation: one party gets to hire someone for pretty cheap to get something done (e.g. some garden work or handiwork—I’m guessing quite often things they wouldn’t have paid anyone to do otherwise), and the other gets some extra money, human interactions and the satisfaction of non-backbreaking manual labour.