The EU Presidency of Sweden has organised a 'High-level meeting on active and autonomous ageing' on 13-14 February 2023. The aim of the meeting was to highlight various aspects related to population ageing and foster a discussion on both challenges and opportunities brought by demographic change in EU Member States.
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The EU Presidency of Sweden has organised a High-level meeting on active and autonomous ageing. The aim of the meeting was to highlight various aspects related to population ageing and foster a discussion on both challenges and opportunities brought by demographic change in EU Member States. The event focused on how to enable longer and more sustainable working lives as well as on how to attract and retain carers with the right skills, in order to provide sustainable and quality care for older people at a time when more people are living longer.
Eurofound Deputy Director Maria Jepsen was a keynote speaker at 10am on 14 February 2023, introducing the session Good practices and innovative ideas concerning how to attract workers with the right skills to the long-term care sector. Maria introduced the topic by explaining the challenges facing the care sector and compared the experiences of different EU Member States. She discussed the notion of right skills, explained why EU Member States struggle to attract and retain workers with the right skills, elaborated on how this issue could be dealt with, and contemplated on what role technology could play moving forward.