Mainstreaming Ageing: Indicators to Monitor Sustainable Progress and Policies

Two key approaches are in place in monitoring the implementation of the UN Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA): a qualitative bottom-up participatory approach and an approach that uses quantitative indicators to monitor sustainable progress and policies. The UNECE region was the first to adopt a Regional Implementation Strategy (RIS) to monitor MIPAA, and the European Centre, through its MA:IMI project, is responsible for technically and scientifically supporting the monitoring RIS process. One of its key tasks has been to develop a list of 'indicators of achievement'.This book contains extended and revised versions of policy briefs and background papers presented at a major workship held to discuss the implementation of MIPAA in April 2004. The analyses included in these chapters make concrete suggestions towards quantitative indicators, with the aim of assisting national governments in mainstreaming ageing in their policies and in monitoring this process. The contributors provide an overview of the current situation with respect to population ageing and its consequences and also provide projections for the future. The book also includes the final list of quantitative indicators that arose out of consultations with nternational experts, related to the four main topics addressed in Madrid: demography, income and wealth, labour market participation, and social protection and financial sustainability.