WHAT 'S THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU BETTER AGEING IN EUROPE?
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In which country you should live to age better once she passed the age of 60? Is there a way to measure it: the 'AAI (Active Ageing Index), the synthetic indicator introduced by the European Union to measure as they are functional policies for those over 55 and for active aging in different countries.
From an initial measurement, at the top of the list of European countries where age better are: Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands. Italy is in mid-table.
The year 2012 was the year of active aging: in all European Union countries have been numerous meetings and events aimed at raising public awareness on the need to think all'aging so different from the past. And just a few months from the end of the year, the European Union, together with the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations, has unveiled a new tool to measure and monitor the degree of active aging in member countries.
The 'Active Aging Index is a statistical index and the four main areas of which it is composed are: the "level of employment", the "degree of participation in society," the "how you live this phase of life in health and so independent and safe, "the" ability to age actively ".
Italy is ranked in 15th place out of 27 countries, but is not homogeneous in the four main areas: poorly positioned relative to '"indipendent, healthy and secure living" (19th place, is the first to Denmark) and still worse about the "level of employment" (22 th place, first place goes to Sweden), while there aggiudichiamo a 2nd place for the "degree of social participation" (1st Ireland).
Better analyze these data: the 2nd place in the "level of social participation" can be attributed to the factor "take care of their children and grandchildren." It is an activity that the survey is taken into account if carried out at least once a week and on this we are the best in Europe. Also significant is "taking care of the elderly and their relatives are no longer independent." In carrying out voluntary activities, another factor that makes up the "level of social participation", we are instead perfectly on average.
But where risultiamo lags active aging? We should take better care in three aspects: physical exercise, familiarity with information technology and life long learning (participation in training, training, courses for age better)
With regard to 'exercise, we penultimate followed only by the Bulgarians. Even in the life long learning (as measured by the criterion: etc.) are well below average, as in 'use of the internet.
Finally, the level of employment is of Italian ten points below the average for the age group 55-64 years and even with differences of up to 40 points compared to the countries in the top of the rankings if you look at the range 60-64 years. In short, there is still a long way to go for us!
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