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年配者の社会参加を働きかけているアメリカのNPO Civic
Ventures発行のニュースレターのスペシャル・リポートに昨年ロンドンで開催されたAARP国際会議の記事が掲載され、村田アソシエイツ代表 村田裕之の発言が紹介されました。
Reinventing Retirement
While much of the conference focused on the challenges of refinancing
retirement, some attention was given to reshaping the institution
of retirement to respond to new demographic and economic realities.
Marc Freedman pointed out that the introduction of Social Security
in the U.S. did “an immense amount of good” in providing economic
security for retirees and was quite effective in encouraging older
workers to leave the workforce. But it created an unanticipated
problem: what would workers do after retirement? The answer, for
the past half-century, was based on a life of leisure. But that
model is increasing obsolete since we simply can’t afford to support
a leisure class that is one-quarter of the adult population. We
now need to figure out how to “tell a new story” about retirement.
Freedman proposed that we shift from viewing retirement as offering
“the freedom from work” to a new lifestage that offers “the freedom
to work” ? that is, to continue to work, but in a way that is
more personally meaningful and socially beneficial
Hiro Murata, President of Murata Associates, Inc. of Tokyo,
supported the premise that retirement will increasingly involve
work, though it may differ from mid-life employment in some important
ways. He offered a useful distinction between two different motives
for employment?having to keep working and wanting to keep working?that
involve distinctly different issues.
Virgilio Onate, Chairman of Seniors Espanoles para la Cooperacion
Tecnica (SECOT), described how his organization recruited retired
executives from Spanish banks and financial services firms to
work with young entrepreneurs on preparing business plans for
new ventures. As a result of these collaborations, several hundred
new start-up businesses have been funded.
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