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14 May 2008Printer friendly

AGIR – Ageing, health

and retirement in Europe
Research Reports:

Country reports:
Bio-demographic aspects of

ageing
“Life expectancy

and morbidity in Germany” -

Data, Erika Schulz and Barbara

Muller-Unger, February 2003
“Bio-Demographic

Aspects of Ageing: Data for Finland”, ETLA, April 2003
“Bio-demographic

aspects of ageing: Data and findings for Spain”, Namkee Ahn, Ricard Genova,

Jose Antonio Herce and Joaquin Pereira, May 2003
“Mortality, Family

Circumstances and Health in the United Kingdom”, Martin Weale, May 2003
“Bio-demographic

aspects of ageing: Data for Belgium”, J. Mestdagh and M. Lambrecht, July

2003
“Bio-demographic

aspects of ageing: Data and results for France”, Florence Arestoff, Thomas

Barnay, Sandrine Dufour-Kippelen, Marie-Eve Joel, Colin Smith and Jerome

Wittwer, October 2003
Use of health and

nursing care
“Use of health care

and nursing by the elderly in Finland”, Hannu Piekkola, April 2003
“Use of health and nursing

care by the elderly: Data for Belgium”, J. Mestdagh and M. Lambrecht, July

2003
“Use of health care and nursing by the

elderly: Data for The Netherlands”, Ton Brouwer and Ed Westerhout, September2003
“Use of health and

nursing care by the elderly: Spanish Country Report”, FEDEA, September 2003
“Use of health and

nursing care by the elderly: Data and results for Germany”, Erika Schulz, October 2003
“Use of health and nursing care

by the elderly: Data and results for France”, Thomas Barnay,

Sandrine Dufour-Kippelen, Marie-Eve Joel, Colin Smith and Jerome Wittwer,

October 2003

A CD ROM with all the reports resulting from the AGIR project could be freely

ordered at info@enepri.org
Final

Conference:
The main results from this project were presented at a

conference that took place in Brussels on 10th March 2005.
The programme of the AGIR Final

Conference, including links to the presentations, is available here.
Background:
A question increasingly raised in recent years is

whether the trend towards longer life expectancy has been accompanied by comparable

increases in the expectancy of a life in good health (or free from disability).

The answer to this question is important for projecting health care expenditure

and for forecasting retirement patterns over the coming decades. The AGIR

project aimed at exploring all available information in Europe to illustrate

whether people are not only living longer but also in a better health. Data

providing evidence on the impact of the health status of the population on the

use of health care and on retirement decisions was also collected. This

information was used to make projections of future developments of pension and

health expenditure in several EU countries. Finally, the project analysed

different policy options available to influence the pension and health

expenditure in the future.
The AGIR project, which started in January 2002 and

finished in March 2005, was developed in two phases. The first phase was

devoted to the search and compilation of data, on which the second analytical

phase was based. In particular, data were collected on:
·Demographic and health evolution of the population in

various EU countries in the last 50 years
·Use of health care services, particularly of long-term

care and informal care, and its relation to age and health, as well as the link

between informal care giving and the labour force participation of women
·Determinants of retirement, considering the

individuals’ valuation of domestic work
In a

second phase, projections of future health and pension expenditure were

prepared under different health and demographic scenarios. Building upon these

results, the last part of the project analysed the public policy implications,

in particular the scope to influence the development of health and retirement

expenditure over the coming decades.
The following institutes participated in

this project:
CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), Brussels
CEPII

(Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales), Paris
CPB (Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy

Analysis), The

Hague
DIW (Deutsches Institut

fur Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin
ETLA (the Research Institute of the Finnish

Economy), Helsinki
FEDEA

(Fundacion de Estudios de Economia Aplicada), Madrid
FPB

(Belgian Federal Planning Bureau), Brussels
NIESR

(National Institute for Economic and Social Research), London
LEGOS

(Laboratoire d’Economie et de Gestion des Organisations de Sante, Universite de

Paris-Dauphine), Paris
AGIR received finance from the European Commission, under the Quality of

Life Programme of the 5th EU Research Framework Programme.
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